1919 by Eve Ewing

In 1919 awardwinning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 of the people who took part in it and of the lives that were marked by it. This most intense of the riots of the USAs Red Summer lasted eight days resulting in thirtyeight deaths and almost 500 injuries it was a signal and traumatic event which has now shaped the history of the city where it took place for a century. As well as telling the tale of the riot itself and the Paperback softback