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The Ida B. Wells Collection: The Arkansas Race Riot (1919)

This video is a FIRST in a series on the Ida B. Wells Collection. Ida B. Wells was a Great Scholar, Organizer, and Reporter for her peoples. The heroic journalist Ida B. Wells traveled to the jail, disguising herself as a relative. She published The Arkansas Race Riot a year later, recording the perspectives of the men who had been falsely accused. Born a slave in rural Holly Springs, Mississippi, Ida Wells-Barnett grew up during emancipation and Reconstruction. She had raised her five siblings on meager wages as a rural schoolteacher. She became one of the most passionate anti-lynching activists and the first African American woman to own her own newspaper. The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States. While its deepest roots lay in the state’s commitment to white supremacy, the events in Elaine (Phillips County) stemmed from tense race relations and growing concerns about labor unions. A shooting incident that occurred at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union escalated into mob violence on the part of the white people in Elaine and surrounding areas. Although the exact number is unknown, estimates of the number of African Americans killed by whites range into the hundreds; five white people lost their lives. References: The Arkansas race riot by Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931. https://archive.org/details/TheArkans... Subscribe to the channel: iskosi umfundisi