Red summer
Subtitle: the Summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America
By: Cameron McWhirter
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780805089066
Subjects: Lynching; Violence against; Racism; Social conditions; Race relations; Race riots; African Americans; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "A John Macrae Book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Carswell Grove; title: Things fall apart; title: The world is on fire; title: The NAACP; title: National Conference on Lynching; title: Charleston; title: Bombs and the decline of the West; title: Ellisville; title: Cleveland; title: Longview; title: Washington; title: Chicago is a great foreign city; title: The beach; title: Like a great volcano; title: Austin; title: Knoxville; title: A new Negro; title: Omaha; title: Phillips County; title: Let the nation see itself; title: Capitol Hill; title: Coda : Carswell Grove.