PD in Your PJs, Teaching the Red Summer: Discussing Difficult Histories to Enhance Understanding of Post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow America

In the wake of World War I, as soldiers returned from their bases and battlefields, the United States erupted with racial violence. In total, more than three dozen cities would experience so called “race riots” in 1919. The year was so violent that James Weldon Johnson, noted author and field secretary for the NAACP, coined the phrase “Red Summer” to describe the reign of violence that prevailed that year. In understanding the Red Summer, we must first and foremost understand that the origins of the violence and hate which culminated into racial massacres predated the summer. Please join ALPLM's Director of Research, Dr. Brian Mitchell, to explore the catalysts for the “Red Summer” and primary resources that can be used in the classroom when teaching this difficult history.

This is a free program, but advance registration is required.