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These riots were caused by rapid demobilization and lack of price control, which led to unemployment and inflation, sparking racial tensions between blacks and whites competing for jobs. They were intensified by the Red Scare, labelling blacks who wanted racial equality as radicals. Demobilization is the process of standing down a nations armed forces from combat-ready status. ... In economics, incomes policies are wage and price controls used to fight inflation. ... Some factual claims in this article need to be verified. ...
Unlike earlier race riots in US history, these riots were among the first where there was an organized black response - black leaders promoted violence as self-defense.
References
Erickson, Alana J. Red Summer. In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996.
Walk through a grove of trees in a forest preserve this summer and the region's most colorful bat may be clinging upside down to a branch though you may never see it.
The red bat lives alone — not in colonies — hanging by day among leaves, against tree trunks, or under loose bark flakes, where it might be mistaken for a dead leaf.
Here, in summer, the female red bat remains suspended from a branch all day long as her two-to-five young cling to her, feasting on her milk.
In September 1919, after the fervor of the "RedSummer" had abated, the U.S. Bishops had a meeting on the campus of Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A committee of 15 eventually became the Federated Colored Catholics.
The "RedSummer" did not reach Baltimore and the members of the St. Francis Church did not vocalize against lynching, or if they did, the documents have not been located.
Father N.R. Denis was pastor during "RedSummer." There was a vacant house across the street from the priest house that had been occupied by the Christian Brothers for the School of the Cathedral.
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