Red Summer The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

Name: Red Summer The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
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ISBN: 9780805089066

ISBN-10: 0805089063

ISBN-13: 9780805089066

Edition: 2011

Authors: Cameron McWhirter

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A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchingsAfter World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War.Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings swept the country for eight months. From April to October of 1919, the racial unrest rolled across the South into the North and the Midwest, even to the nation's capital. Millions of lives were disrupted, and hundreds of lives were lost. Blacks responded by fighting back with…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 7/19/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Cameron McWhirter is a writer and staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America (2011) and a contributor to The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia (2005).




Carswell Grove



Things Fall Apart



The World Is on Fire



The NAACP



National Conference on Lynching



Charleston



Bombs and the Decline of the West



Ellisville



Cleveland



Longview



Washington



Chicago Is a Great Foreign City



The Beach



Like a Great Volcano



Austin



Knoxville



Negro



Omaha



Phillips County



Let the Nation See Itself



Capitol Hill


Coda. Carswell Grove


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index