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In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and divisive

A dozen Black men were convicted<strong> </strong>of murder<strong> </strong>by all-white juries in connection with the 1919 massacre in Elaine, Ark. Above, defendants S.A. Jones, Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J.C. Knox, Ed Coleman and Paul Hall with their attorney at the state penitentiary in Little Rock in 1925 after the Supreme Court overturned their convictions. (Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System)
A dozen Black men were convicted of murder by all-white juries in connection with the 1919 massacre in Elaine, Ark. Above, defendants S.A. Jones, Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J.C. Knox, Ed Coleman and Paul Hall with their attorney at the state penitentiary in Little Rock in 1925 after the Supreme Court overturned their convictions. (Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System)

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