They organized to demand fair pay for their own cotton. In response, a mob, U.S. troops, three days of hunting Black sharecroppers through the fields—and the deaths of 100 to 200+ Black men, women, and children. This is the The Elaine Massacre of 1919. Their crime was organizing a union so cotton planters would finally pay them a fair price for their own crops. When white landowners found out, they didn't send lawyers. They sent a mob of hundreds, backed by U.S. troops. Twelve Black survivors were then sentenced to death for "inciting" the violence done to them. They organized for fair pay. The response was armed violence, a massacre, and then death sentences for the people who survived it. The Elaine Massacre is one of the histories we documented in our book. They tried to punish the victims and bury the story. We put the story back on the record savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…