1919

Resource Information

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Label

1919

Statement of responsibility

Eve L. Ewing

Creator

• Ewing, Eve L

Author

• Ewing, Eve L

Subject

• Poetry
• Poetry
• Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919 -- Poetry

Genre

• Poetry

Language

eng

Summary

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the "Red Summer" of violence across the nation's cities, is an event that has shaped the last century but is widely unknown. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event--which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries--through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history, and illuminates the thin line between the past and the present

Member of

• Poems., Selections

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

811/.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3605.W553

LC item number

A6 2019

Literary form

poetry

Nature of contents

bibliography