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1919

By: Eve L. Ewing
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The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event - which lasted eight days and resulted in 38 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.

©2019 Eve L. Ewing (P)2020 Tantor
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visceral felt and poetically read

this short work of a current and past woes that still plague the very real issues of systemic racism. Done in masterfully woven poetic prose that is visceral and emotionally jarring.

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Unforgettable images of hidden history

Poems inspired by Chicago's Red Summer of 1919, a history too many want us to forget.

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