Hundreds of black deaths in Red Summer ignored century later

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1. Thanks for the post

Never heard of this aspect of post WWI America. There was the Red Scare of course, and the flu epidemic, and corporate America closing ranks against socialists. Even the great read "The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State" (Weinstein) does not mention racial events or the Red Summer.

I think some things are so disturbing, and so toxic, with potential for further strife, that they are buried by history, or by the news media. For example, the dissolution of the American Bund still has relatively little online reference, a dozen articles at most. Communities that were hotbeds supporting Nazis are barely mentioned, and most interest in the subject petered out in the 1950s. Maybe anti-communism was a bigger fish to fry. Red Summer might be such a forgotten period of history.