1919 Av Eve Ewing

<p>In <i>1919</i>, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it.<br><br>This most intense of the riots of the USA''s ''Red Summer'' lasted eight days, resulting in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries; it was a signal and traumatic event which has now shaped the history of the city where it took place for a century. As well as telling the tale of the riot itself and the cruel murder which precipitated it, the poems of <i>1919 </i>explore its aftermath and bring to vivid life the mass migrations which had set the stage for this violence in the preceding years.<br><br>Poetically recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city, and using speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to reimagine history, the result is a book which unearths the universal at the heart of the particular, and illuminates the fine li