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A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919
Title:
A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919
Author:
Hartfield, Claire, author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Physical Description:
198 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary:
"Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.
Language:
English
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.
Reading Level:
Young Adult

1120 Lexile

Young Adult.

1120 Lexile.

Ages 12 and up.
ISBN:
9780544785137
Format :
Book