America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered in Arkansas

In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave of white vigilantism and mass murder that left 237 people dead.

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Published Feb. 16 2015 6:55AM EST 

David Krugler

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