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Title:
A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 / Claire Hartfield.
Author:
Hartfield, Claire, author.
Publication Information:
Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Call Number:
NONFIC F548.9.N3 H37 2018
Abstract:
"Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780544785137
Physical Description:
198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Contents:
Catalyst -- The beach -- A time to reap -- First whispers -- Freedom fight -- Self reliance -- White Negroes -- Waste matters -- Parallel universes -- A stone's throw -- Up from the south -- A higher call -- The northern fever -- A real place for Negroes -- A job, any job -- Full to bursting -- Respectability and respect -- Reaping the whirlwind -- Tensions rising -- Last straws -- Race riot -- Ratcheting up -- Point counterpoint -- Moment of truth.
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Reading Level:
Ages 12 and up.
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