Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian says 25 deadly race riots erupted throughout the country. Both May 31 and June 1 mark the 101st anniversary of the Tulsa ...

In his study of the bloody summer of 1919, when lynching "spread like influenza" across the U.S., McWhirter, staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal, focuses most sharply on seven outbreaks of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One hundred years ago, on May 31, 1921, an angry white mob beat and murdered at least 300 Black residents in a Tulsa, Okla., ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — The City of Charleston unveiled another historical marker dedicated to The Red Summer of 1919 Wednesday. The Red Summer of 1919 got its name from the bloodshed across ...

Rioters on the south side of the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, NE on Sept 28, 1919. History Nebraska On September 27, 1919, a mob of at least 10,000 white people stormed the courthouse in Omaha, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Events are scheduled Saturday to commemorate a dark time in Chicago's history -- the Race Riots of 1919. It was known as the "Red Summer." This is the third year organizers have ...

On July 27, 1919, Eugene Williams, a Black 17-year-old boy playing in Lake Michigan at a beach near 29th Street, floated across an invisible – and unofficial – color line segregating the swimming area ...

As the nation corrects the hidden history of the Tulsa Race Riot on its 100th anniversary, the massacre mirrors the devastating violence and destruction of a deep-rooted Black community in Knoxville's ...

America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened. It flowed in small towns like Elaine, Arkansas, in ...

Both May 31 and June 1 mark the 101st anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the country’s most renowned instances of a white mob destroying a prosperous black neighborhood and slaughtering ...