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: 9781250009067

ISBN-10: 1250009065

ISBN-13: 9781250009067

Edition: 2012

Authors: Cameron McWhirter

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After 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. Millions of lives were disrupted, and hundreds of lives were lost. Blacks responded by fighting back with an intensity and determination never seen before. Their resistance began the great dismantling of institutional prejudice that had long marred American society. Red Summer is the first narrative history written about this epic…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.56" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.682
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



A New Negro



Omaha



Phillips County



Let the Nation See Itself



Capitol Hill


Coda: Carswell Grove


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index