From WILL - WILLConnect: Stories - March 21, 2011

Riot Sparked Civil Rights Movement

One of the bloodiest race riots in the 20th Century took place in 1917 in East St. Louis, Illinois.

One of the bloodiest race riots in the 20th Century took place in 1917 in East St. Louis, Illinois. Illinois Public Media's Celeste Quinn talks to Harper Barnes, editor and cultural critic for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, about how the riots sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Barnes is the author of "Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

Categories: Civil Rights, Community, History
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