Cover of Red summer

Book 2011

Red summer

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Publisher
Henry Holt & Co.
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Lynching
  • Violence against
  • Racism
  • Social conditions
  • Race relations
  • Race riots
  • African Americans
  • History

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.