Excellent, Lipmann preface kind of confusing. Parent review just because it's pretty harsh, especially the section about lynching, but really ties in a ton of different history elements, good "living history" (really, journalism) source for between the wars.

100 years and we still haven’t learned. Black Lives Matter.

I read this for the Popsugar 2020 Summer Reading Challenge in the category of "a book about Black history in America". In 1919 Carl Sandburg (yes, that Carl Sandburg) was a newspaper reporter in Chicago. This book is a compilation of several articles he wrote before and after the Chicago Race Riots

This is a short collection of articles originally published in the Chicago Daily news in 1919. I stumbled across this copy on a family bookshelf which may have been a book from school days - this edition was printed in 1969.
The preface from the ‘69 reprint may have been the most startling damnation

Riveting Articles on the Origin of Chicago Race Riots

This is a remarkable account of race relations in the early 20th century written by an eloquent newspaperman, Carl Sandburg. It is based on detailed research, statistics, interviews, and stories about and by individuals. It is very topical today,

French edition (2016, anamosa)

6 out of 10