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October 11, 1919
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held a press conference in New York in order to publicly condemn the events of the Elaine Massacre. Governor Charles Brough, in response to the actions of the NAACP, tried to prevent the NAACP’s magazine Crisis, as well as the black-owned newspaper the Chicago Defender, from being distributed in Arkansas.