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A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 / Claire Hartfield.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]Description: 198 p. : ill., map ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780544785137
Other title:
  • Chicago Race Riots of 1919
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/0730773110904 23
LOC classification:
  • F548.9.N3 H37 2018
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.
Awards:
  • Coretta Scott King Award, 2019
Summary: "Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.
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Beverly Middle School 305.896 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 730076

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.

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

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Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.9 6.0 500342. BR

Coretta Scott King Award, 2019