The word "pogrom" would be wholly out of place, however.

The extent of the violence in Elaine is greatly exaggerated by The Guardian, apparently to enhance weaponization of this history.

Wikipedia and USA Today give national totals for the Red Summer far lower than the total given by The Guardian for just this one small southern town.

The Guardian wants you to think of it as an episode of genocide, or at least of ethnic cleansing.

But in Ukraine alone and over 40 years, actual pogroms killed tens or hundreds of thousands and left millions homeless.

For comparison, Wikipedia: According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 [more than 80 years - PV] in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 whites.

More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post-Civil War period occurred in the Southern states.

According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 in the South.

That is not nothing, but it is by orders of magnitude a lesser atrocity.

Arkansas: tree honoring 1919 Elaine Massacre victims cut down

Officials are investigating after someone cut down a willow tree that was planted earlier this year to honor the victims of the 1919 Elaine Massacre in eastern Arkansas.

The willow was planted in April in rememabrance of the victims of the massacre, one of the largest racial mass killings in US history.

It occurred during the summer of 1919, when hundreds of African Americans died across the country, at the hands of white mob violence during what came to be known as the “Red Summer”.

Estimates of how many African Americans were killed in Elaine range from the low hundreds to more than 800, which would make it the deadliest such massacre in US history. 

Mass graves are thought to be situated around the town.