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The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
Henry Holt & Company
July 2011
On Sale: July 19, 2011
368 pages
ISBN: 0805089063
EAN: 9780805089066
Hardcover
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A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race
riots and lynchings 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 for eight months. From April to
November 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 an
intensity and determination never seen before. Red Summer is the first narrative history written about this
epic encounter. Focusing on the worst riots and
lynchings—including those in Chicago, Washington, D.C.,
Charleston, Omaha and Knoxville—Cameron McWhirter chronicles
the mayhem, while also exploring the first stirrings of a
civil rights movement that would transform American society
forty years later.
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