Author: William M. Tuttle, Jr.

A classroom perennial, Race Riot remains one of the bedrock studies of race relations in the urban North. William M. Tuttle Jr.'s classic unearths hard-to-find evidence and source material to support his vivid look at the interracial strains that led to one of the nation's most infamous race riots. On one side stood Black Americans energized by their WWI experiences to expect greater opportunity. On the were white, predominantly Irish people who feared a loss of status as the Great Migration swelled the Black community. The legacy of racism, combined with tensions over issues like housing, labor, politics, and policing, converged to pit the sides against one-another and, after a season of slights and violent acts, led to five days of bloodshed.