Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917

".

        . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and

        social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American

        race riots."

        -- American Historical Review

      "His work fills a serious

        gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before

        analyzed by sociologists in the way that the Chicago and Detroit riots

        were, the East St. Louis riot outranked both as measured by the number

        of deaths."

        -- American Journal of Sociology