Red Summer of 1919

When

1919

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

39.83° N, 98.58° W

Description

hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States, as a result of anti-black white supremacist terrorist attacks

Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.

1919 period of white supremacist terrorism and racial riots in many U.S. cities

The Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the United States, and in one rural county in Arkansas. The term "Red Summer" was coined by civil rights activist and author James Weldon Johnson, who had been employed as a field secretary by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) since 1916…

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