Multimedia from "Red Summer/Winter Blues"
The last event of Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots was a screening and discussion of the film "Red Summer/Winter Blues," an untold story of black resistance, uprising, and awakening, at the DuSable Museum of African American History. Filmmaker Barbara Allen, film producer Gail Baker, DuSable staff member G'Jordan Williams, and journalist Cameron McWhirter took part in a discussion moderated by Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College at the University of Chicago. Singer Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, pianist and composer Reginald Robinson, and HipHop recording artist and songwriter Sean "SB" Butler performed selections from the "Red Summer/Winter Blues" soundtrack.
Photographs by Anne Ryan.