The Compound

Between 100 and 800 Black sharecroppers were killed in the Elaine Massacre of 1919 — the deadliest racial violence event in American history. Ada finds the trial transcript for the twelve men sentenced to death and overturned by the Supreme Court in Moore v. Dempsey. One witness is still living. He was seven years old when it happened. He can name the man who ordered the federal troop response.