Into the Canebrakes: Arkansas and NAACP's Campaign for a Federal Anti-Lynching Law

Authors

Marie Claire Durr

Keywords

Elaine Massacre, Henry Lowery, NAACP, lynching, race violence

Abstract

Race relations worsened and violence driven by racism increased following World War I. As a result, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or the NAACP, began to scout out cases they could employ in the fight to enshrine federal protections against racial terrorism that were exemplified in Arkansas' 1919 Elaine Massacre and the 1921 lynching of Henry Lowery.

Recommended Citation

Durr, Marie Claire (2024) "Into the Canebrakes: Arkansas and NAACP's Campaign for a Federal Anti-Lynching Law," The Ozark Historical Review: Vol. 51, Article 4.

Available at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/ohr/vol51/iss1/4