January 11, 1923

The case of Moore v. Dempsey was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. This case constituted an appeal to convictions for murder against six of twelve black men accused of having planned an insurrection in Phillips County, part of a series of events now known as the Elaine Massacre.

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