Red Summer
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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, and in one rural county in Arkansas
News coverage of the Garfield Park riot of 1919
Will Brown, victim of Omaha, Nebraska lynching
Five policemen and one soldier during the Chicago race riot
Mob law in Washington, D.C., New-York Tribune, July 27, 1919, editorial cartoon
The nadir of American race relations is a historical period defined by historian Rayford Logan as the worst time for race relations in the United States after the Civil War ended slavery. It overlappe
Red Summer
…Red Summer Part of the First Red Scare and nadir of American race relations (clockwise from the top) A white gang hunting African Americans during the Chicago race riot An inflammatory newspaper headline during the Elaine…
Ku Klux Klan on parade in Springfield, Ohio, in 1923
"And Not This Man?", Harper's Weekly, August 5, 1865. Thomas Nast drew this cartoon; in 1865 he, like many Northerners, remembered Black people's military service and favored granting them voting rights.
"Colored Rule in a Reconstructed(?) State", Harper's Weekly, March 14, 1874. Nine years later, Nast's views on race had changed. He caricatured black legislators as aggressive buffoons.
A quote from Woodrow Wilson used in The Birth of a Nation