ARKANSAS BLACK HISTORY // Exhibition
The “Silent No More” Multi-Media Elaine Massacre History Exhibit
ELAINE, ARK – The “Silent No More” Multi-Media exhibit, created and lead by Descendants of the Elaine Massacre of 1919 (DOEM1919) opens September 30, 2022. Being held at the former Elaine High School (100 College Street) in Elaine, Arkansas, the exhibit will include a historical timeline of the Elaine Massacre, structural art, digital stories, and names of known victims and survivors.
This two-day exhibit opens on the anniversary of the Elaine Massacre, Friday, September 30 and concludes on Saturday, October 1, 2022, 9:00 am-6:00 pm. Visitors will be able to see what sharecropper’s agreements with plantation owners looked like, and view copies of letters written by a soldier who was on the ground in Elaine during the Massacre.
Some will learn for the first time, about Attorney Scipio A. Jones and his fight to save the lives of the Elaine 12. They will learn of the fierce, anti-Lynching activist, Journalist and Author Ida B. Wells-Barnett who wrote first-hand accounts of the Elaine Massacre. Visitors will also be introduced to two descendants of the Elaine Massacre on opposite sides of this dark time in our history, and hear their story of friendship, reconciliation, and healing.
DOEM1919 invites high schools, colleges, and universities to help make Friday, September 30, 2022, a day for “An Education in Arkansas History” by planning a school trip to Elaine to tour the exhibit so that students can learn about this time in American History. To register your school, please contact us at the information below.
The “Silent No More” Exhibit is free to the public. Read URBANE Magazine article on the occurrences of the Elaine Massacre.
Email: Descendantsofelaine@gmail.com
Contact person: Lisa Hicks Gilbert
Organization: Descendants of The Elaine Massacre of 1919 (DOEM1919)
Address: P.O Box 593 Elaine, Arkansas 72333
Phone: 501-765-6331
This two-day exhibit opens on the anniversary of the Elaine Massacre, Friday, September 30 and concludes on Saturday, October 1, 2022, 9:00 am-6:00 pm. Visitors will be able to see what sharecropper’s agreements with plantation owners looked like, and view copies of letters written by a soldier who was on the ground in Elaine during the Massacre.
Some will learn for the first time, about Attorney Scipio A. Jones and his fight to save the lives of the Elaine 12. They will learn of the fierce, anti-Lynching activist, Journalist and Author Ida B. Wells-Barnett who wrote first-hand accounts of the Elaine Massacre. Visitors will also be introduced to two descendants of the Elaine Massacre on opposite sides of this dark time in our history, and hear their story of friendship, reconciliation, and healing.
DOEM1919 invites high schools, colleges, and universities to help make Friday, September 30, 2022, a day for “An Education in Arkansas History” by planning a school trip to Elaine to tour the exhibit so that students can learn about this time in American History. To register your school, please contact us at the information below.
The “Silent No More” Exhibit is free to the public. Read URBANE Magazine article on the occurrences of the Elaine Massacre.
Email: Descendantsofelaine@gmail.com
Contact person: Lisa Hicks Gilbert
Organization: Descendants of The Elaine Massacre of 1919 (DOEM1919)
Address: P.O Box 593 Elaine, Arkansas 72333
Phone: 501-765-6331
“DOEM1919 is excited to welcome visitors to historic Elaine to tour this exhibit created and led by descendants of the victims of the Elaine Massacre. Many in Arkansas have yet to learn of this time in American history. Some of us born and raised in Elaine and the surrounding communities only learned of it as adults. It is important in this time when there are efforts to suppress history, that we work to educate about the Elaine Massacre. It is also important that we break our ancestor’s silence and strengthen our own voices as we honor and protect their stories.”
-- Lisa Hicks Gilbert, founder of DOEM1919.
