Lost History: 15 20th Century American Race Riots and Massacres

1868. CREATOR: Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828–1891, artist. NOTES: Illus. in: Harper’s weekly, 1868 July 25, p. 473.

Between April and November of 1919, after African American veterans returned from World World I, approximately 25 race riots, hundreds of deaths, including 97 lynchings broke out across the United States. The mass spread of violence would be known as The Red Summer. But these incidents were not isolated to 1919 or the 20th century alone, in fact, this is but a slice of the…