Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917

by Elliott Rudwick

        ".
        . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and
        social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American
        race riots."
        -- American Historical Review
      "His work fills a serious
        gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before
        analyzed by sociologists in the way that the Chicago and Detroit riots
        were, the East St. Louis riot outranked both as measured by the number
        of deaths."
        -- American Journal of Sociology
 

Genres: History, Nonfiction

300 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1982

About the author

Elliott M. Rudwick was a professor of sociology at Kent State University. A graduate of Temple University, he earned his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

[Sarah Feliciano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not what I expected when I picked it up but definitely a much needed reminder of lessons we should have learned from the past.