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Zoe Martin - The Red Summer of 1919 Explained Article

The document discusses the Red Summer of 1919, when widespread racial violence and civil unrest erupted across the United States. Over 150 African Americans were killed in riots, lynchings, and smaller clashes as white mobs attacked black communities. The violence occurred in cities like Chicago, Washington D.C., and Elaine, Arkansas as African Americans also began fighting back against racial oppression and demanding full citizenship rights. However, the history of these events was often omitted from school textbooks.

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Zoe Martin - The Red Summer of 1919 Explained Article

The document discusses the Red Summer of 1919, when widespread racial violence and civil unrest erupted across the United States. Over 150 African Americans were killed in riots, lynchings, and smaller clashes as white mobs attacked black communities. The violence occurred in cities like Chicago, Washington D.C., and Elaine, Arkansas as African Americans also began fighting back against racial oppression and demanding full citizenship rights. However, the history of these events was often omitted from school textbooks.

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The Red Summer of 1919, Explained - Zoe Martin

Thoughts/Questions:
- It said you wouldn’t find information about the 1919 riots in history books, why is that?
- African-Americans started fighting back in Tennessee & Chicago.
- I think it is sad that these events are able to be compared to today's events.
- I think this was revised from the publishing date because of the BLM protests.
- When did these events end?
- How many people died in total?
- A lot of stories from history are being twisted

My Reaction:
This article makes me feel somewhat sad / disgusted. I feel sad for what african-americans had to go through, and I
feel disgusted that people still are facing / going through similar things.

Overall Message:
I think the message of this article is to show how unequally African Americans were treated and show the sides of
stories that we maybe didn’t hear because they are usually not taught in school. The message is to show the struggle
that African-Americans faced, and I think they wanted to somewhat show how some of those events are being
repeated in today's society.

New Words:
WORD DEFINITION

Cisheteropatriarchal A straight male, conforming-to-assigned sex system of


power.

Bereft Deprived of / Lacking

NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of


Colored People

Irrefutable Impossible to deny/disprove

Peddle promote (an idea or view) persistently or widely.

Ambiguity the quality of being open to more than one


interpretation; inexactness.

Important Sentences:
- “1919 was a time when black people in the United States defended themselves, fought back, and demanded
full citizenship through thousands of acts of courage, small and large, individual and collective.”

- “A wave of anti-black collective violence usually and problematically termed “race riots” occurred in
Charleston, South Carolina​; ​Longview, Texas​; ​Bisbee, Arizona​; ​Washington, D.C.​; ​Chicago​; ​Knoxville,
Tennessee​; ​Omaha, Nebraska​; and ​Elaine, Arkansas​.”

- “...white supremacists lynched nearly 100 black people and initiated dozens of smaller racist clashes
throughout the country in 1919.”

- “The official death toll of 1919’s epidemic of white rage exceeded 150. The majority of the victims were
black”

- “I had been fighting the wrong war. The Germans weren’t the enemy — the enemy was right here at home.”
- “In Washington, D.C., 17-year-old Carrie Johnson opened fire on men breaking into her home while 1,000
white rioters laid siege to her neighborhood.”

- “White violence and volition is always incidental, never fundamental.”

- “We cannot repair a ​pattern of​ harm​ that we have been taught to neither acknowledge nor
understand.”

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