COLOUR LINE IN U.S.A.
RAID ON NEGRO CAMP
A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, May 6. There was rioting on the old fields at Eldorado, Arkansas, when a band oi two hundred oilfield workers marched upon the camp of eighty-eight negroes who were engaged in the construction of a pine line. Several were wounded and were brought to Eldorado. It is reported that several were killed. Approximatelv a hundred shots were exchanged. The negroes deserted the camp.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 May 1925, Page 9
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