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Hundreds of black deaths in Summer of 1919 are being remembered
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JESSE J. HOLLAND
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Hundreds of black deaths in Summer of 1919 are being remembered
Hundreds of black deaths in 1919 are being remembered
America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened. It flowed in small towns like Elaine, Arkansas, in medium-size places such as Annapolis, Maryland, and Syracuse, New York, and in big cities like...
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Segregation among issues Chicago faces 100 years after riots
On a hot July day in 1919, a black 17-year-old swimming in Lake Michigan drifted in a dangerous direction — toward the white section of a Chicago beach. White beachgoers, angry at Eugene Williams' intrusion, hurled rocks at him. It happened 100 years ago, in the "Red Summer" of race riots that...
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... what was going wrong about polls and being blocked and stuff?