Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

"In the 1910s, half a million African Americans moved from the impoverished rural South to booming industrial cities of the North in search of jobs and freedom from Jim Crow laws, But Northern whites often responded with rage, attacking blacks in the streets and laying waste to black neighborhoods in a horrific series of deadly race riots that broke out in dozens of cities across the nation." "St. Louis journalist Harper Barnes has written the first full account of the riot as a dramatic turning point in American history, decisively placing it in the continuum of racial tensions flowing from Reconstruction and as a catalyst of civil rights action"--BOOK JACKET.Barnes, Harper is the author of 'Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement', published 2008 under ISBN 9780802715753 and ISBN 0802715753.