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This evening the Arkansas Cinema Society will screen the documentary "We Have Just Begun" at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The film focuses on the 1919 Elaine Massacre, one of the bloodiest racial confrontations in our state s history, and it s a historical event that is rarely discussed.
"We Have Just Begun" has a place in the ongoing conversation about how we ought to remember and redress some of the terrible crimes of the past, crimes that generations buried and many people believe should be left undisturbed.
This evening the Arkansas Cinema Society will screen the documentary "We Have Just Begun" at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The film focuses on the 1919 Elaine Massacre, one of the bloodiest racial confrontations in our state s history, and it s a historical event that is rarely discussed.
"We Have Just Begun" has a place in the ongoing conversation about how we ought to remember and redress some of the terrible crimes of the past, crimes that generations buried and many people believe should be left undisturbed.