A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Author

Claire Hartfield

Call Numbers

• J 305.896 HART (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)
• 305.896 H3285 TEEN (CEN, OSH)
• 305.896 H3285 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]

Physical Description

198 pages : map, illustrations ; 27 cm

Audience

Ages 12 and up.

Summary

"Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.

July, 1919. Five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. Hartfield draws on contemporary accounts to trace the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. -- adapted from amazon.com.

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.