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Author McWhirter, Cameron.

Title Red summer : the summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America / Cameron McWhirter.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt & Co., [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8 M459    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.8 MCWHIRTER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.8 MCW    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8 M25    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  305.800973 MCWHIRTER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  305.8009 MCWHIRTER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note "A John Macrae Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-338) and index.
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.
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.
Subject African Americans -- Violence against -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Lynching -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Race riots -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780805089066: $32.50
0805089063
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