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Red summer : the Summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America

Title
Red summer : the Summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America / Cameron McWhirter.
Author
McWhirter, Cameron.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt & Co., 2011.

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Description
x, 352 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports.; 25 cm.
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.
Subjects
Note
  • "A John Macrae Book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-338) and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 11-906
ISBN
  • 9780805089066
  • 0805089063
LCCN
2010042111
OCLC
671491689
Author
McWhirter, Cameron.
Title
Red summer : the Summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America / Cameron McWhirter.
Imprint
New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt & Co., 2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-338) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 11-906
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