ATROCITY
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.
David Krugler is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin—Platteville and the author of 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
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.