Resources
Article: Elaine Race Massacre Anniversary. Community Says Reparations are Due.
September 30, 2021
Website: Karen Hilfman for BuzzFlash: Elaine Race Massacre Anniversary. Community Says Reparations are Due.
"September 30, 2021 marked the 102nd anniversary of the 1919 Elaine Race Massacre in Arkansas." Karen Hilfman, a board member with the Fund for Reparations NOW! writes an op-ed about the history of the Elaine Massacre, the partnership between FFRN! and ELC, and the need for a national call for reparations.
Film: We Have Just Begun
Summer 2023 Just Released
Website: We Have Just Begun
"“We Have Just Begun” was the secret passcode spoken by members of the union of Black farmers and domestic workers organizing throughout the Arkansas Delta. The film is a five-year collaborative investigation into the Elaine Massacre and its repercussions in Phillips County. By combining recordings of eyewitnesses, revelations of descendants, and interviews with scholars, activists and current Elaine residents, the film brings long-suppressed facts and details to light, while considering both the burdens and opportunities of history
Register for Webinar with TIAA DIVEST , October 26, 2023
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Article: ‘We want our land back’: for descendants of the Elaine massacre, history is far from settled
June 18, 2021
Journalist Noa Yachot writes about the painful legacy of the Elaine Massacre of 1917, and the ways in which the story of those events has been contested and buried over the years. Now it's time to bring it to light.
ARTICLE: ‘We want our land back’: for descendants of the Elaine massacre, history is far from settled
From The Guardian
Article: Three Descendants of the 1919 Elaine, Arkansas Massacre Speak on the Lasting Impact of an Overlooked History
June 18, 2021
"I recently spoke with Elaine massacre descendants, James White, Lenora Marshall and Anthony Davis about the racial terror in the small town over a century ago and its lasting effects."
From The North Star
Video: Richard Wright Summit (recording)
June 17, 2021
Check out the recording from the innaugural Richard Wright Summit, digitally hosted by the Elaine Legacy Center and moderated by the Rev. Judge Wendell Griffin.
VIDEO: Richard Right Summit Recording (Passcode: nUd^b$1s)
Radio: Remembering Black Boy and the Legacy of Richard Wright with Julia WrightStruggle and Solidarity
June 14, 2021
Listen in as Dr. Ron Daniels, of the National African American Reparations Commission interviews Julia Wright about the legacy of her father, Richard Wright.
RADIO: Remembering Black Boy and the Legacy of Richard Wright
From IWB21.org
Rare Opportunity for Elaine-Area Descendants
Article: Elaine Massacre reparations bid receives $50,000
December 21, 2020
Listen in as Dr. Ron Daniels, of the National African American Reparations Commission interviews Julia Wright about the legacy of her father, Richard Wright.
ARTICLE: Elaine Massacre reparations receive $50,000
From the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Video: Histories of Multiracial Struggle and Solidarity
November 5, 2020
Struggles of Indigenous people, Latinx people, and others have often been intertwined with Black radical organizing. Join historians and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Johanna Fernandez, and Paul Ortiz for this important conversation about how organizations like the Young Lords Party, among many others, faced the challenges and possibilities of building genuine solidarity.
VIDEO: Histories of Multiracial Struggle and Solidarity
Check out how the story of descendants of the Elaine Massacre and The Elaine Legacy Center feature into this cross-movement solidarity!
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Wednesday, November 1, 12 noon at Elaine Legacy Center.
View nd Discuss the TIAA DIVEST WEBINAR,
"How T I A A Purchased a Lgacy of Racism and Murder."
Also Affirm and Refine Our Demands to TIAA: 1) Stop all pesticiae and chemical use, 2) redistricture land to African American food farmers, 3) Fund $10 billion for ownership of new farmers of infrastructure from planting to processing to marketing to sales and for area repair.
Wednesday, November 1, 12 noon at Elaine Legacy Center.
View nd Discuss the TIAA DIVEST WEBINAR,
"How T I A A Purchased a Lgacy of Racism and Murder."
Also Affirm and Refine Our Demands to TIAA: 1) Stop all pesticiae and chemical use, 2) redistricture land to African American food farmers, 3) Fund $10 billion for ownership of new farmers of infrastructure from planting to processing to marketing to sales and for area repair.