Editing Phillips County, Arkansas (section)

==History==
From September 30 – October 1, 1919, during the [[Elaine race riot]] in Phillips County, at least 237 [[African American]]s were killed, attacked at large by armed whites trying to suppress the [[Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America]] which was organizing in the county. Because the white mob actions were racial terrorism against African Americans, the deaths were classified as [[Lynching in the United States|lynchings]] by the [[Equal Justice Initiative]] in its 2015 report on lynchings in the South. Based on this, Phillips County ranks as the county with the highest number of lynchings in U.S. history.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.html|title=History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 10, 2015|first=Campbell|last=Robertson}}</ref>
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