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Documentary 'We Have Just Begun' explores enduring effects of the 1919 Elaine Massacre

By Kyle Kellams

Published January 12, 2024 at 12:27 PM CST

The new documentary “We Have Just Begun” about the 1919 Elaine Massacre and Dispossession in Phillips County, Arkansas, will be screened a week from tonight at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams visited with film creators Michael Wilson and Tonga Eisen-Martin about how this tragic incident of violence on Black citizens still acts as a continuing influence on the present.

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