September 20, 1891 to September 30, 1891

LEE, Arkansas

African-Americans, Agriculture, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

Ben Patterson, a thirty-year old black man from Memphis led a cotton strike of twenty-five men, probably influenced by the call for strike by the Colored Farmer's Alliance. On September 25 a fight broke out between Patterson's men and workers on a plantation that refused to join the strike. Two pickers were killed. In the last week of September, local planters crushed the strike, killing fifteen...