Massacres & mob attacks
Elaine Massacre
30 September - 7 October 1919Elaine and Hoop Spur, AR
Black sharecroppers in Phillips County pooled money to hire a lawyer and sue for an honest settlement on their cotton. White posses and 500 federal troops answered by killing an estimated 100 to 240 or more Black people.
- People killed
- 100–240
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.