Scipio Africanus Jones convinced governor Thomas McRae to issue indefinite furloughs to people arrested in the aftermath of this event mere hours before he left office.
Scipio Africanus Jones convinced governor Thomas McRae to issue indefinite furloughs to people arrested in the aftermath of this event mere hours before he left office. Twelve men sentenced to death for their role in this event were exonerated after Moore v. Dempsey ruled that the presence of a lynch mob outside the courthouse violated due process. This event began after a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union in Hoop Spur was disrupted by two white sheriffs, resulting in one of them being shot to death. The NAACP sent Field Secretary (*) Walter White to investigate this event, during which hundreds were slaughtered by roving posses of whites seeking to put down the "black insurrection" in Phillips County. For 10 points, name this massacre of black sharecroppers in Arkansas during the "Red Summer" of 1919, the bloodiest incident of racial violence in American history.
Scipio Africanus Jones convinced governor Thomas McRae to issue indefinite furloughs to people arrested in the aftermath of this event mere hours before he left office.
Elaine race riot 