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The Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the United States, ...
The postwar summer of 1919, also known as Red Summer, had already been marked by deadly massacres targeting African-Americans in more than three dozen cities across the country, (including Chicago, Knoxville, Washington, D.C., and Omaha, Nebraska) being targeted by white mobs. Competition for jobs and housing in crowded markets following World ...
The Red Summer is the first special extended play and the fifth overall by South Korean girl group Red Velvet.Marketed as the group's first "special summer" release, the five-track EP was released digitally on July 9, 2017, and physically the following day by SM Entertainment.
The period is referred to as “The Red Summer of 1919.” Mobs of white people attacked Black Americans in various towns and cities, resulting in numerous injuries and deaths.
The Riot of 1919 was one of several violent racial incidents that occurred during the so-called Red Summer when race riots plagued cities across the United States. The riot was one of the worst racial episodes in Knoxville's history and shattered the city's vision of itself as a racially tolerant Southern town. [ 6 ]
Other major events of Red Summer were the Chicago race riot and Washington D.C. race riot, which caused 38 and 39 deaths, respectively. Both riots had many more non-fatal injuries and extensive property damage reaching up into the millions of dollars. [30]
The New York race riots of 1919 developed with increasing racial tension and violent incidents in New York City.These riots were a part of the Red Summer, [1] [circular reference] a series of violent terrorist attacks on black communities in many cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919.
According to Jan Voogd, author of Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919, Bisbee was a "stratified white man's mining camp," and "highly race conscious". The town had rules prohibiting Mexican men from working underground in the mines; because this work paid higher, it was reserved for Welsh and Cornish immigrant miners.