Hartfield, Claire.

A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 / Chicago Race Riots of 1919 Claire Hartfield. - Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] - 198 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-189) and index.

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.

School Library Journal, December 2017 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, January 2018 Publishers Weekly, November 2017 Booklist, November 2017 Horn Book, November 2018 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2017 Kirkus Review, November 2017 Library Media Connection, November 2017

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

Young Adult Follett School Solutions.



Coretta Scott King Award, 2019

9780544785137

2016026969


Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919.


Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History.
Chicago (Ill.)--History.

F548.9.N3 / H37 2018

305.896/0730773110904