Red Summer

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Etymology[edit]

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

Proper noun[edit]

Red Summer

  1. (historical) 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.