Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America UK History by Christopher Arnander & Frances

by Christopher Arnander & Frances Wood

whose diaries he used to reconstruct a soldier’s-eye view of the war years

newspaper accounts and memorabilia

remorseless and gruesome

United States First Division

Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America UK History by Christopher Arnander & FrancesDescription by Cameron McWhirter Paperback After World War I, Black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti black riots and lynchings swept the country for eight months. From April to November of