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Washington post Writer Peter Perl (Marc 1, 1999) revisits the race riots of 1919 in Washington, DC. Four hundred whites moved into black neighborhoods because of a reported sexual assault by an African American on a white woman. This secondary source gives a detailed description of the riots based on primary sources.

Washington post Writer Peter Perl (Marc 1, 1999) revisits the race riots of 1919 in Washington, DC. Four hundred whites moved into black neighborhoods because of a reported sexual assault by an African American on a white woman. This secondary source gives a detailed description of the riots based on primary sources.

Google Book of Solomon Northrup publication which formed the foundation for Oscar-nominated "Twelve Years a Slave." The author's experiences as a freeman, captured and enslaved by the National Mall, and sold south where he labored on a plantation until freed by the actions of family and abolitionist supporters.