Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919
Stockley, Grif / Mitchell, Brian K. / Lancaster, Guy
In late September 1919, black sharecroppers met to protest unfair settlements for their cotton crops from white plantation owners. Local law enforcement broke up the union's meeting, and the next day a thousand white men from the Delta--and troops of the U.S. Army itself--converged on Phillips County, Arkansas, to "put down" the black sharecroppers' "insurrection." In riveting, novelistic prose, writer and Delta native Grif Stockley considers ...