FRANK MOORE

Frank Moore heads the list of the Elaine Twelve, the men sentenced to death after trials in Helena that followed the 1919 Elaine massacre in Phillips County. The twelve were Frank Moore, Frank Hicks, Ed Hicks, Joe Knox, Paul Hall, Ed Coleman, Alfred Banks, Ed Ware, William Wordlaw, Albert Giles, Joe Fox and John Martin. Moore was charged as an accessory in the death of Clinton Lee. In Moore v. Dempsey in 1923 the Supreme Court found the Helena proceedings a mask. Scipio Jones then negotiated second-degree murder pleas, and Governor McRae furloughed the Moore defendants in January 1925.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 1.5 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Old State House Museum — 1.6 mi
  The oldest standing state capitol west of the Mississippi, where lawmakers met from 1836, enslaved people were auctioned in the east wing and Arkansas voted to secede.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 2.3 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.
• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 2.3 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.

More markers nearby

• The Camden Expedition — 1.0 mi
• The Arsenal Crisis — 1.0 mi
• Fort Steele — 1.4 mi
• BISHOP CHARLES HARRISON MASON — 1.6 mi