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Understanding Racial Massacres

By Kyle Kellams

Published February 8, 2023 at 2:38 PM CST

Defendants Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J. C. Knox, Ed Coleman and Paul Hall with their council Scipio A. Jones (far left). — 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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