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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.

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  • Title Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
  • Author Cameron McWhirter
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt & Company, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2011-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780805089066 / 0805089063
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.35 x 6.59 x 1.22 in (23.75 x 16.74 x 3.10 cm)
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations - History -, Race riots - United States - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010042111
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

About the author

Cameron McWhirter is a staff reporter for "The ""Wall Street Journal." He was awarded a Nieman Foundation Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard in 2007. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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