Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917
by Elliott Rudwick
University of Illinois Press, 1982
Paper: 978-0-252-00951-8
Library of Congress Classification F549.E2R8 1982
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896073077389
ABOUT THIS BOOK
".
. . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and
social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American
race riots."
-- American Historical Review
"His work fills a serious
gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before
analyzed by sociologists in the way that the Chicago and Detroit riots
were, the East St. Louis riot outranked both as measured by the number
of deaths."
-- American Journal of Sociology
. . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and
social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American
race riots."
-- American Historical Review
"His work fills a serious
gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before
analyzed by sociologists in the way that the Chicago and Detroit riots
were, the East St. Louis riot outranked both as measured by the number
of deaths."
-- American Journal of Sociology
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