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This passage describes reactions among important Black activists, including W. E. B. Du Bois and others, to the racial violence that rocked Washington, D. C. during the summer of 1919. A race riot breaking out in the nation’s capital only seems to have confirmed the depth and breadth of segregationist sentiment, even in the North.
As the Great Migration brings waves of Black Southerners into the North in search of better jobs, Jim Crow-style segregation and violence follow close behind them. Segregationist laws and membership in white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan increased in the Northern states…