"e;A nation's soul was set ablaze in the summer of 1919 and most Americans have never heard the screams."e;In 1919 Red Summer: The Hidden History of American Terror, James G. Edwards II uncovers one of the bloodiest, most erased chapters in U.S. history. Over the course of just a few months, white mobs attacked Black communities in more than two dozen cities leaving hundreds dead, thousands displaced, and entire neighborhoods in ashes.From the riots in Washington D.C. to the Chicago firestorm and the massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, this gripping account reveals the racial terror that reshaped America's future and the chilling silence that followed.
