Race Riots in US History

It’s time to look at previous instances of mass racial violence to gain some perspective - because this is by no means new or even that different, and if History is good for anything it’s forewarning us. This kind of unrest fills the pages of US history
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References:
Richard Maxwell Brown, Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975). https://amzn.to/2KXI5Xb

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, new ed. (1988; New York: Perennial Classics, 2002). https://amzn.to/34lFOhq

Alfred N. Hunt, Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988). https://amzn.to/3dsqwNd

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (Princeton, N.Jer.: Princeton University Press, 2017). https://amzn.to/2M2ol7j

William M. Tuttle, Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919, new ed. (1970; Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1996). https://amzn.to/3ePXCa5
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