Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 - Softcover

Tuttle, William M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689702876 ISBN 13: 9780689702877

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1972

Synopsis

'This book has more lives than a cat because its feet are firmly planted on the bedrock issues of race and class, its analysis goes to the quick of urban-industrial life in the early twentieth century, and its vivid narrative captures the tumultuous riot without ever losing scholarly balance' - Alan Dawley, author of "Struggles for Justice". 'An important contribution to the history of American violence' - Eric Foner, "The New York Times Book Review".

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"This book has more lives than a cat because its feet are firmly planted on the bedrock issues of race and class, its analysis goes to the quick of urban-industrial life in the early twentieth century, and its vivid narrative captures the tumultuous riot without ever losing scholarly balance. A quarter century after it was first published, it has still not been excelled."--Alan Dawley, author of Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State "One cannot fully understand the Chicago riot of 1919 or, indeed, the post-World War I racial strife without reading this important work."--John Hope Franklin, coeditor, Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689702876
• ISBN 13: 9780689702877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305