What Was NAACP Director James Weldon Johnson Referring to When

question 8

Multiple Choice

What was NAACP director James Weldon Johnson referring to when he coined the term "The Red Summer of 1919"?

• A) the wave of vicious assaults by whites against black communities
• B) the attacks and arrests made on communists and anarchists during the First Red Scare
• C) the deadly attacks made by rival gang members in organized crime over the sale of alcohol
• D) the militant protests undertaken by suffragists as they tried to get the states to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment

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