Arkansas Riot 1919 by Ida B. Wells

“Economic justice reached its awful climax in 1919 in the final answer to
two appeals made by working men, both groups seeking through peaceful
appeal to win better wage and working conditions; both presenting their
grievances through chosen representatives, one to be rewarded by the
President of the United States with patient hearing and final success, the
other to suffer massacre at the hands of the mob and the death penalty by
courts of law.”