1901-1920 Summaries

The Souls of Black Folk is a published collection of essays written by W.E.B Du Bois. This story portrayed the everyday lives of black people and how they are treated. Blacks face a lot of challenges because the world is so racist towards them. The Crisis was also a book a poems that showed how blacks were being treated unfairly. Du Bois made this book really popular and more people started reading it. The Birth of a Nation is a film directed by D.W Griffith and this showed now the South was after the Civil War. It showed the Ku Klux Klan and how blacks forced themselves on white women. Many people were touched with this striking movie and what it proved. This Red Summer highlights the moment during the summer of 1919 when racial fights just blew up everywhere. The top 3 violent fights were in Chicago, Washington D.C., and Arkansas. A people were going crazy in massacres and walkout and everybody just went around killing each other.