Complex sentence: About 100 black sharecroppers gathered at the Hoop Spur Church in Elaine, Arkansas, before dawn on October 1,1919 to obtain better prices for their products from the white planters who controlled the land.
Split into simpler sentences: About 100 black sharecroppers gathered at the Hoop Spur Church in Elaine, Arkansas, before dawn on October 1,1919. They wanted to be able to obtain better prices for their products from the white planters who controlled the land.