A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 / Claire Hartfield.

By: Hartfield, ClaireMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]Description: 198 p. : ill., map ; 27 cmISBN: 9780544785137Other title: Chicago Race Riots of 1919Subject(s): Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919 -- Juvenile literature | African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature | African Americans -- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions | Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919 | African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions | Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature | Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875- -- Juvenile literature | Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century | Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-DDC classification: 305.896/0730773110904 LOC classification: F548.9.N3 | H37 2018
Contents:
Catalyst -- The beach -- A time to reap -- First whispers -- Freedom fight -- Self reliance -- White Negroes -- Waste matters -- Parallel universes -- A stone's throw -- Up from the south -- A higher call -- The northern fever -- A real place for Negroes -- A job, any job -- Full to bursting -- Respectability and respect -- Reaping the whirlwind -- Tensions rising -- Last straws -- Race riot -- Ratcheting up -- Point counterpoint -- Moment of truth.
Awards: Coretta Scott King Award, 2019Summary: "Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.
Item type: List(s) this item appears in: Black History - Selected Non-Fiction
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-189) and index.

Catalyst -- The beach -- A time to reap -- First whispers -- Freedom fight -- Self reliance -- White Negroes -- Waste matters -- Parallel universes -- A stone's throw -- Up from the south -- A higher call -- The northern fever -- A real place for Negroes -- A job, any job -- Full to bursting -- Respectability and respect -- Reaping the whirlwind -- Tensions rising -- Last straws -- Race riot -- Ratcheting up -- Point counterpoint -- Moment of truth.

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Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2017

Kirkus Review, November 2017

Library Media Connection, November 2017

"Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.

Young Adult Follett School Solutions.

1120 Lexile.

Coretta Scott King Award, 2019

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