Chronicles race relations in the United States from 1900 to the end of the 1920, focusing on lynchings, race riots, segregation laws, anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism.
Describes several events and individuals involved in or touched by the 1909-10 textile workers' uprising and the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in Manhattan in 1911, presenting more than sixty primary documents such as newspaper accounts, and examining the issues faced by young working women at this time.
