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As the last session of the year and on this Veteran’s Day, I wanted to find a way to honor veterans and also bring light to other examples of the ways Black veterans weren’t treated equally in this county and the violence that stemmed from Black Vets protecting themselves and their communities.
1919 was a year of great violence towards Black towns and communities. In the fall of 1919, Dr. George Edmund Haynes, director of Negro Economics for the U.S. Department of Labor, identified 38 separate racial riots where blacks were attacked by white people. One of the main reasons tensions were high were due to the returning veterans. Veterans are an important part of the fabric of this country.
This session, we will dig into the events of Red Summer of 1919. What happened across parts of the country and how Black men finished fighting for freedoms of a country that didn’t see them as whole. From the revolution to the civil war and beyond, Black vets have laid their lives and deserve to be honored too.
For this session, there’s a lot to read but as always, you do not have to get through everything. Many of these are short reads and others are a bit longer. Click through and get a gist of as many as you can. I wanted to make sure we had enough information so folks could see how widespread the violence of Red Summer was.
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Red summer 1919
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