The Arkansas Race Riot is a short investigative pamphlet by Ida B. Wells-Barnett that challenges the official white-led narrative surrounding the 1919 Elaine, Arkansas violence and argues that Black sharecroppers seeking fair economic treatment were met with brutal repression, mass violence, and a legal system stacked against them. Drawing on interviews and testimony (including from imprisoned men), it documents how fear, propaganda, and local power shaped what the nation was told, and it aims to rally outside attention and support for those accused and targeted in the aftermath.
