Description "The Zora Neale Hurston of her generation." -- Studio 360 "A truly rare cultural phenomenon: an artist who not only holds up a mirror to society, but makes herself a catalyst to change it." -- Chicago Tribune 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.
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Description "The Zora Neale Hurston of her generation." -- Studio 360 "A truly rare cultural phenomenon: an artist who not only holds up a mirror to society, but makes herself a catalyst to change it." -- Chicago Tribune 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