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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 ... Map of the rioting during the Washington D ...
A few red drops: The Chicago race riot of 1919 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018). Krist, Gary. City of Scoundrels: The Twelve Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago. New York: Crown Publisher, 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-45429-4. Sandburg, Carl. The Chicago Race Riots July 1919. (New York; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1919). Spear, Allan.
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. The New York race riots ...
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 ...
Jenkins County riot of 1919; Part of the Red Summer: Census Enumeration District Map Of Jenkins County. Date: April 13, 1919: Location: Carswell Grove Baptist Church ...
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.
Another Baltimore riot occurred between 11 PM October 1, 1919, until 2 AM October 2. It is at the end of the Red Summer riots of 1919. A small group of soldiers from Fort Meade (one paper says 4, another 7) were walking near Eastern avenue and Spring street when a bottle was thrown from a house hit one of them. "The doughboys began yelling at ...
These lynchings were part of a period of civil unrest now known as the American Red Summer of 1919. Attacks on black communities and white oppression spread to more than three dozen cities and counties. In most cases, white mobs attacked African American neighborhoods.