Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
By Harper Barnes.
Description
The dramatic and first popular account of one of the deadliest racial confrontations in the 20th century―in East St. Louis in the summer of 1917―which paved the way for the civil rights movement.In the 1910s, half a million African Americans moved from the impoverished rural South to booming industrial cities of the North in search of jobs and freedom from Jim Crow laws. But Northern whites responded with rage, attacking blacks in the streets and laying waste to black neighborhoods in a horrific series of deadly race riots that broke out in dozens of cities across the nation, including Phil...
ISBN(s)
0802715753, 9780802715753
