#20th centry

[bonappetiteats]

Gourmet Magazine

Cover illustration of a bowl of Bouillabaisse with a glass of white wine and a basket of bread, against a blue backdrop.

by Henry Stahlhut

[historybizarre]

The Massacre of Black Sharecroppers That Led the Supreme Court to Curb the Racial Disparities of the Justice System

White Arkansans, fearful of what would happen if African-Americans organized, took violent action, but it was the victims who ended up standing trial

The sharecroppers who gathered at a small church in Elaine, Arkansas, in the late hours of September 30, 1919, knew the risk they were taking. Upset about unfair low wages, they enlisted the help of a prominent white attorney from Little Rock, Ulysses Bratton, to come to Elaine to press for a fairer share in the profits of their labor. Each season, landowners came around demanding obscene percentages of the profits, without ever presenting the sharecroppers detailed accounting and trapping them with supposed debts.

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At around 11 p.m. that night, a group of local white men, some of whom may have been affiliated with local law enforcement, fired shots into the church. The shots were returned, and in the chaos, one white man was killed. Word spread rapidly about the death. Rumors arose that the sharecroppers, who had formally joined a union known as the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America (PFHUA) were leading an organized “insurrection” against the white residents of Phillips County.

[russian-painting]

Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin - The girl from Bali, (1938). 

[jojomouznasser]

The Actress Camille Clifford, who played the 'Gibson Girl' on the London stage in 1904. The curves of her rounded hourglass figure are echoed by the circles of her bowl-shaped, feathers-filled hat, huge ostrich feathers fan and swirled train.