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Language: en
Pages: 366
Pages: 366
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-19 - Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
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Language: en
Pages: 334
Pages: 334
Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Peter Lang
Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the «Red Summer» of 1919 in which black communities were tar
Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-05 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migration. Their arri
Language: en
Pages: 347
Pages: 347
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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