English Explanatory Dictionary

Red Summer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States, as well as in one rural county in Arkansas.

Word forms

Red Summer

Etymology

Coined by American civil rights activist and author James Weldon Johnson in 1919.

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