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A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riot of 1919  Cover Image Book Book

A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Hartfield, Claire (author.).

Summary: This book examines the events and forces leading up to the 1919 race riots in Chicago.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780544785137
  • ISBN: 0544785134
  • ISBN: 9780358667995
  • ISBN: 9780605971912
  • ISBN: 0605971919
  • Physical Description: print
    198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
  • Publisher: Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 12 and up.
Awards Note:
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2019
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature Finalist, 2018
Subject: Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919 Juvenile literature
Chicago (Ill.) Race relations History 20th century Juvenile literature
Chicago (Ill.) History 1875- Juvenile literature
African Americans Illinois Chicago Social conditions Juvenile literature
Race relations
Civil rights movements Illinois Chicago
JUVENILE NONFICTION Law & Crime
JUVENILE NONFICTION People & Places United States African American
JUVENILE NONFICTION Social Topics Violence
African Americans Illinois Chicago Social conditions
Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919
Chicago (Ill.) History 1898-1919
Chicago (Ill.) Race relations History 20th century
African Americans Social conditions
Race relations
Illinois Chicago
Coretta Scott King Award
African Americans Illinois Chicago Social life and customs 20th century
Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919
Chicago (Illinois) Race relations History 20th century
Chicago (Illinois) History
Genre: Instructional and educational works.
Coretta Scott King Award -- 2018.
History.
Instructional and educational works.
Juvenile works.
Instructional and educational works.

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  • 3 out of 3 copies are currently available at Clayton County Library System.

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