The curious phenomenon which has emerged from the Ferguson riots is that in this process the white power structure stays behind as the community turns black. The result is a white police force in ...

In September 1917, for instance, black soldiers clashed with white civilians in Houston, Texas, and in 1919, during a prolonged period of civil unrest now known as the "Red Summer," 26 race riots ...

a crowd of men and armed National Guard stand in front of the Ogden Cafe during race riots in Chicago. Red Summer, as the summer of 1919 came to be known, saw white-on-black violence in big cities ...