Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805089066 (0805089063)
ASIN: 0805089063
Publish date: 2011-07-19
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
African American,
Mystery,
Politics,
American History,
Crime,
United States,
Race
This is essential reading. It covers a part of American history that I was never really taught in school. It provided context for works I'd read in my African American Literature classes - Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright. I developed a clearer understanding of the roots of the NAACP...