Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN-10
0802715753
ISBN-13
9780802715753
Category
History
Pages
293
Language
English
Published
2008-06-24
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Author
Harper Barnes

Description

Documents the deadly racial confrontation in 1917 East St. Louis between white and black citizens, describing the Jim Crow limits that prompted the move of half a million job-seeking African-Americans to northern industrial cities and the resulting backlash that took the form of deadly race riots, union disputes, and political corruption. 30,000 first printing.

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