An airship crash, a murder mystery, and a bloody race riot. We look at 12 days of disaster in Chicago's history.
The summer of 1919 brought about some of the worst racial violence in American history. We talk with the author of Red Summer, a new book that explores a deadly year of race riots and lynchings that swept the nation.
 

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