In late 1871, the Chicot County Race War occurred in Arkansas. The county was taken over by several hundred African-Americans. The group was led by the state legislator and county judge James W. Mason. The murder of a black lawyer, Wathal Wynn, is what prompted the violence. The black citizens planned to kill the men […]

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