Item #007919 American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race riot and Black Politics. Charles L. Lumpkins.

American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race riot and Black Politics

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. Paperback. xiv, 312 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. The author asserts that the attacks on the Black residents of East St. Louis, Illinois, on July 2 and 3, 1917, were a pogrom -- "an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group -- orchestrated by certain businessmen intent on preventing black residents from attaining political power and on turning the city into a 'sundown' town permanently cleared of African Americans." -- back cover. He traces the history of the Black community in East St. Louis from 1800 through 1945. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Fine. Item #007919
ISBN: 9780821418031

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