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Happy Saturday.

In this week's episode about the Memphis Massacre, we talked about that massacre being part of a pattern.

While we mentioned some other similar massacres, we really didn't spend a lot of time on the pattern part.

So for today's Saturday classic,

we have chosen an episode that does spend more time on that.

It's our June 3rd, 2019 episode on the Red Summer of 1919.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class,

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Okay. Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. This year is the 100th anniversary of the wave of racist violence in the United States that came to be known as Red Summer.

And we talked about this just a little bit in our

2015 episode on the Harlem Hellfighters. But that was a long time ago, and it was just like

a little bit in part three of the episode, not really enough to do it justice. And honestly,

it was a whole summer you could do an entire podcast just on this.

But with the 100th anniversary, it seemed like a good time to return to it.

In a lot of ways, the violence of Red Summer was a response to two earlier and sometimes overlapping events.

And those were the great migration and the return of black soldiers who had fought in World

War I to the United States.

And to be clear, neither of these things caused Red Summer.

Red Summer was a backlash to them.

These returning veterans and migrating families were not to blame for what happened.

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