Anatomy of Four Race Riots: Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa, and Chicago, 1919-1921
Lee E. Williams and Lee E. Williams II
Abstract
This is a study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different communities of America during the post World War I years, violence that left hundreds dead or injured and a massive amount of destruction in its wake. Although the igniting incident or event varied somewhat, there was a similarity in the racial climate that existed in each town. The emerging blacks, boosted economically and idealistically by the war effort, were viewed as a threat by some of the whites. The bloody riots described here were grave evidence of the intensity of the fear and hatred that existed between a ... More
Keywords: racial violence, racial climate, blacks, war effort, threat, fear, hatred, America, destruction, riots
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9781604731903 |
| Published to University Press of Mississippi: March 2014 | DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781604731903.001.0001 |
