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On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips
County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the
Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. The next day,
hundreds of white men from the Delta, along with US Army troops,
converged on the area 'with blood in their eyes.' What happened
next was one of the deadliest incidents of racial violence in the
history of the United States, leaving a legacy of trauma and
silence that has persisted for more than a century. In the wake of
the massacre, the NAACP and Little Rock lawyer Scipio Jones
spearheaded legal action that revolutionized due process in
America. The first edition of Grif Stockley's Blood in Their Eyes,
published in 2001, brought renewed attention to the Elaine Massacre
and sparked valuable new studies on racial violence and
exploitation in Arkansas and beyond. With contributions from fellow
historians Brian K. Mitchell and Guy Lancaster, this revised
edition draws from recently uncovered source material and explores
in greater detail the actions of the mob, the lives of those who
survived the massacre, and the regime of fear and terror that
prevailed under Jim Crow.
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