Red Summer interview on African-American Conservatives blog radio
I discussed the racial violence of 1919 and black political response on the “African-American Conservatives” show tonight on blog talk radio. Listen to the show here.
Watch PBS documentary “Slavery by Another Name” coming Monday, Feb. 13 to public television
The film, based on Douglas Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, will be broadcast at 9 p.m., Eastern Time and 8 p.m., Central. I was lucky enough to see a preview last night in Atlanta. Like the book, the documentary explores the long-suppressed history of the systematic re-enslavement of black men across the South by local governments and sheriffs in collusion with businesses and farmers. They used local laws, coercion and brutality to create a cheap forced labor pool for Southern businesses, lasting from the 1870s to the 1940s.
More info on the film here.
Buy the book here.
Brooklyn blogger Robert Williams reviews Red Summer
He writes: “Carefully researched, with 60 pages of notes on the sources used in writing this book, Mr. McWhirter has given us a complete and accurate picture of just what it took to spark the fire which would lead to the quest for racial equality in America.”
See the review here.
Booklist names Red Summer a top Black history book of the year
The magazine declares Red Summer one of the top ten Black history books of 2011, calling it a “riveting account of the summer that transformed American race relations.”
See the list here.
Chicago Weekly reviews Red Summer
Christopher Riehle at Chicago Weekly, the Independent Voice of the University of Chicago, reviews Red Summer.
He writes: “Reading through “Red Summer” by Cameron McWhirter is to watch the worst of America on a parade that pitilessly refuses to end. Dispensing taut, no-nonsense prose, the veteran Wall Street Journal reporter marches us through the most public racial atrocities to occur that year across the country.”Read full review here.
Peter Roy Clark lists Red Summer to be one of three books this year “of interest to writers.”
Peter Roy Clark, renowned writing coach at the Poynter Institute, send out a tweet yesterday listing Red Summer as one of three “2011 books of interest to writers.”
The other two were Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth (an old classmate) and Believing is Seeing by Errol Morris.
Clark has authored and co-authored numerous books, including most recently The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English.
Book TV to re-broadcast Red Summer talk on Dec. 26 and Dec. 27
Book TV will rebroadcast my talk at the Carter Center on Boxing Day, Dec. 26, at 2 p.m. (Eastern Time) and on Dec. 27 at 2 a.m. (Eastern Time).
Times are listed here, or you can just watch the broadcast on your computer.
Great visit to Detroit, ending Red Summer talks for 2011
Thanks to the staff and students who came to my talk at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Students and teachers asked great questions and we had lively discussions afterward at the book signing. It was good to be back in Detroit, where I once worked as a political reporter for the Detroit News.
Red Summer talk at Schoolcraft College near Detroit, Dec. 8, 1 p.m.
I will be speaking at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Mich., on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 1 p.m. Admission is free.
Where: Schoolcraft College, 18600 Haggerty Rd., Livonia, MI 48152
The talk will be in the Vis Ta Tech Building, Room 550.For a map of the campus, click here.
For a Detroit News article on the talk, click here.
Detroit News interviews me about Red Summer
In advance of a talk on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 1 p.m. at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Susan Whitall, Detroit News reporter and author of several books, most recently of Fever: The Fast Life and Mysterious Death of Little Willie John, and the Birth of Soul talks with me about Red Summer.
Read the interview here.
To buy Susan’s book, click here.
