The racist riots of 1919 happened 100 years ago this summer. Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a time when African Americans defended themselves, fought back, and demanded full citizenship in thousands of acts of courage and daring, small and large, individual and collective.
Teen Vogue featured a Zinn Education Project article by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, on Red Summer as part of their OG History series that unearths history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens.
See our If We Knew Our History series for a longer version of this article.
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