The Undying Legacy: How the early 20th-century 'nadir' of race relations remains alive
Eliminationism in America, Part 8: The violence of ethnic cleansing created a divide that remains with us -- as well as the stirrings of Black resistance.
Part 8 of 12. [Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.]
The events surrounding the Red Summer of 1919 and its aftermath are important to remember in part because they are representative of the kind of horror that lies within the history of being Black in America, a horror most white Americans little understand or appreciate, reinforced by their often willful igno…
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