In 1919 Arkansas, Black sharecoppers, business owners, land owners, and veterans returned home from WWI began to organize in an effort to obtain their fair share of the massive capital influx the region saw from its booming agricultural business. The response, couched in racism and red-scare hysteria, was mass assault, theft, and deportation.
For the first time, We Have Just Begun reveals the suppressed history of the Elaine Massacre and Dispossession. Featuring a wealth of new research, primary documents, and invaluable oral histories, the film compellingly demonstrates the ways in which this shameful event continues to shape the region to this day.
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