Red summer : the summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America / Cameron McWhirter.
2011
E185.61 .M47948 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Red summer : the summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America / Cameron McWhirter.
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Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805089066
0805089063
0805089063
Publication Details
New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt & Co., 2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 352 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E185.61 .M47948 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.800973
Summary
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.
Note
"A John Macrae Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.