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Archive for February, 2012
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.
