Racism Around Me
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The Red Summer of 1919 · April - October 1919
Between April and October 1919 white mobs attacked Black communities in roughly two dozen American cities and counties. James Weldon Johnson of the NAACP named the season the Red Summer.
7 of about 25 documented incidents are on this map. The rest is a gap in this map, not in the history.
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