by J. Chester Johnson | Feb 27, 2013
Preface Across the sweeping canvas of American history, two markers–inherited and ineluctable–from the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919 in Phillips County, Arkansas of the Mississippi River Delta invite a degree of attention to the episode yet to be...
by J. Chester Johnson | Feb 25, 2013
In the final installment of J. Chester Johnson’s “Evanescence: The Elaine Race Massacre,” the author returns to the unmarked site of the massacre in search of some kind of recognition of the many lives lost. –The Editors Read Part 1, Part 2,...
by J. Chester Johnson | Feb 22, 2013
In this third installment (of four) in J. Chester Johnson’s “Evanescence: The Elaine Race Massacre,” Johnson traces the dramatic and improbable legal fall-out following the Elaine Massacre, capturing the struggles that the sharecroppers experienced...
by J. Chester Johnson | Feb 20, 2013
Welcome to the second installment (of four) in J. Chester Johnson’s “Evanescence: The Elaine Race Massacre,” a revelatory account of one of the deadliest race massacres in American History. Though rarely discussed today, the massacre played an...
by J. Chester Johnson | Feb 17, 2013
Over the next ten days, Green Mountains Review Online will present in four installments J. Chester Johnson’s groundbreaking essay “Evanescence: The Elaine Race Massacre,” which probes deeply into one of America’s deadliest and least discussed...
