Author Elizabeth Hinton joined The 21st to discuss misconceptions about the urban riots of the 1960s — which she says are better understood as rebellions. Her latest book is America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.

Red Summer was a series of race riots that occurred for several months in different places around the country. In Chicago, Eugene Williams' death was what sparked the city's riots, but kindling for that fire had been building for at least a few years.