Former AJC reporter, current Wall Street Journal Reporter and Author, Cameron McWhirter, will discuss his new book "Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America." The book chronicles the one of the nation's most violent chapters in race relations, which began in Jenkins County, GA and spread around the country resulting in dozens of deaths, thousands of injuries and a new political awareness among African-Americans that led to the modern civil rights movement of the 1960's.
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