Race Riot
Subtitle: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
Published: February 1972
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780689702877
Subjects: History - General History; General; Chicago; Riots; Fiction; Illinois; History; Modern fiction; African Americans; 1875-; 20th century; Chicago (Ill.)
First sentence: THE PARKS AND BATHING BEACHES," Chicago's leading black newspaper, the Defender, reminded its readers in July 1919, "are much more inviting these warm days than State Street.