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The Red Summer of 1919: Toward a Synthesis - Cameron McWhirter. Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America. New York: Henry Holt, 2011. 368 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8050-8906-6; $16.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4299-7293-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Adam J. Hodges*
Affiliation:
University of Houston–Clear Lake

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2013

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References

1 Kornweibel, Theodore Jr., “Seeing Red”: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919–1925 (Bloomington, IN, 1998)Google Scholar; Foley, Barbara, Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (Urbana, 2003)Google Scholar.

2 Kornweibel, “Seeing Red,” xii.

3 Voogd, Jan, Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919 (New York, 2008), viiiGoogle Scholar.

4 Murray, Robert K., Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920 (Minneapolis, 1955)Google Scholar.

5 According to the index, the group appears on sixteen pages of the text.

6 Tuttle, William M. Jr., Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (New York, 1970)Google Scholar.