Learning More About the St. Charles Lynchings of 1904

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published December 13, 2021 at 1:27 PM CST

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Painted bullet holes surround a sculpture of a man in remembrance of the 1904 massacre. Artist V.L. Cox titled the piece “1904,” and it is housed in Helena, Arkansas, 40 miles away from the place of the murders in Helena, Arkansas.";s:

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In 1904, over four days, white mobs lynched 13 Black men in St. Charles, Arkansas. Despite being one of the worst such incidents in U.S. history, little has been said about it for more than a century. Mary Hennigan, a graduate journalism student at the University of Arkansas, has spent months researching what happened and talked with descendants of those murdered. Her reporting is part of the Printing Hate project from the University of Maryland's Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.