Red Summer

AP takes a closer look at the “Red Summer” of 1919

July 25, 2019 GMT

Segregation among issues Chicago faces 100 years after riots

By NOREEN NASIRJuly 24, 2019 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — On a hot July day in 1919, a black 17-year-old swimming in Lake Michigan drifted in a dangerous direction — toward the white section of a Chicago beach...

Mexican Americans faced racial terror from 1910-1920

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and CEDAR ATTANASIOJuly 26, 2019 GMT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Twenty years ago, a knock on the door opened the past for Arlinda Valencia...

Hundreds of black deaths in 1919 are being remembered

By JESSE J. HOLLANDJuly 23, 2019 GMT

Where the “Red Summer” riots of 1919 took place

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In a small Arkansas town, echoes of a century-old massacre

By NOREEN NASIRJuly 25, 2019 GMT

ELAINE, Ark. (AP) — J. Chester Johnson never heard about the mass killing of black people in Elaine, a couple hours away from where he grew up in Arkansas...