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Understanding Racial Massacres

Defendants Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J. C. Knox, Ed Coleman and Paul Hall with their council Scipio A. Jones (far left).
Courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Elaine Massacre Defendants Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J. C. Knox, Ed Coleman and Paul Hall with their council Scipio A. Jones (far left).

Hannibal B. Johnson has researched and written about 20th-century racial massacres like those that took place in Tulsa and Elaine, Arkansas. He will deliver the talk "Understanding Racial Massacres in Arkansas and Oklahoma: Elaine, Catcher, and Tulsa" Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Fort Smith Museum of History.

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Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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