Eight Months of ‘Race Riots’ in 1919: Retrospectives 100+ Years Later

Civil unrest in the midst of a pandemic in 2020 recalls “riots” 101 years earlier, 1919. NBC News recalls “how the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020. The wave of violence a century ago against Black Americans echoes how today, “people feel they have little to lose, and so much at stake,” one historian said….If history is any indication, the development…