Book Description
Portrays the race riot which left 38 dead, 537 wounded and hundreds homeless in Chicago during the summer of 1919.
Author : William M. Tuttle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252065866
Portrays the race riot which left 38 dead, 537 wounded and hundreds homeless in Chicago during the summer of 1919.
Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 1919
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Claire Hartfield
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544785134
On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Archival photos and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.
Author : Chicago Commission on Race Relations
Publisher :
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 1922
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Lee Weiner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1948742861
A memoir of a life in activism by one of the original defendants in the Trial of the Chicago 7, subject of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film of the same name. In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal
Author : Claire Hartfield
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2017
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780605971912
"Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.
Author : David F. Krugler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1316195007
1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black citizens. In city after city - Washington, DC; Chicago; Charleston; and elsewhere - black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage. Refusing to yield, African Americans sought accuracy and fairness in the courts of public opinion and the law. This is the first account of this three-front fight - in the streets, in the press, and in the courts - against mob violence during one of the worst years of racial conflict in US history.
Author : William M. Tuttle
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Cameron McWhirter
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1429972939
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.
Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher :
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2020
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781087306834