The Elaine race riot history project (Navigating The Journey)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2019-07-18

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An estimated 100 to 237 blacks were killed, along with five white men.  The Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America had organized chapters in the Elaine area in 1918-19. On September 29, representatives met with about 100 black farmers at a church near Elaine to discuss how to obtain fairer settlements from landowners. Whites had resisted union organizing by the farmers and often spied on or disrupted such meetings. In a confrontation at the church, a county deputy was shot and killed, and another white man wounded

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