The Red Summer of 1919 was one of the most volatile periods of our nation’s history. The Red Summer of 1919 was one of the most volatile periods of our nation’s history but one of the lesser known ...
On July 27, 1919, Eugene Williams, a Black 17-year-old boy playing in Lake Michigan at a beach near 29th Street, floated across an invisible – and unofficial – color line segregating the swimming area ...
Most Black Americans have never heard of the Red Summer of 1919…but it is an element of Black history that we need to pay attention to. This country specializes in committing monstrous atrocities and ...
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