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America’s Red Summer 100 years ago
PETER FROST remembers hundreds of black deaths during 1919’s Red Summer
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THE US in the summer and autumn of 1919 was a place of violence and racial anger and yet today, exactly a century later, those events have almost been written out of the country’s official history.
There are no national events marking Red Summer, history textbooks ignore it and most museums don’t mention it.
It was branded “Red Summer” because of the bloodshed that was some of the worst white-on-black violence in the whole of US history, yet it is only now that some, more progressive, historians are beginning to analyse these events.
The violence happened all across the US 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.
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