Position Paper For Knoxville’s Red Summer 1919
The videos Knoxville’s Red Summer: The Riot of 1919 and Race Riot in Columbia, Tennessee, February 25–27, 1946: Mink Slide Black Community examine two episodes of racial violence in Tennessee separated by more than twenty-five years. The original position paper correctly notes that the Knoxville riot followed World War I and the Columbia uprising followed World War II. It also recognizes that both events involved accusations, armed white authorities or

