Red summer : the Summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America / Cameron McWhirter.
A narrative history of one of America's deadliest episodes of race riots and lynchings traces how black Americans were brutally targeted by anti-black uprisings that culminated in hundreds of deaths and set the stage for the civil rights movement.
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- ISBN: 9780805089066 :
- ISBN: 0805089063
- Physical Description: x, 352 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt & Co., 2011.
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General Note: | "A John Macrae Book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-338) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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