Red Summer

Chicago, like many other cities across America, has an ugly history regarding their treatment of Black lives and the enduring stench of racism. On July 27, 1919, 100 years ago this Saturday, an angry white mob contributed to the tragic death of a Black teenager who made the fatal mistake of crossing an imaginary racial […]

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 Washington and Chicago. Hundreds of […]

The Red Summer of 1919 refers to a series of race riots that took place in dozens of cities across the United States. On this day that year, Washington, D.C. endured an ugly race riot that left dozens dead and several more injured. As World War I was becoming a memory, many former military men, […]