Charles L. Lumpkins

Charles Lumpkins teaches history and African American studies at the Pennsylvania State University.


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American Pogrom

The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics

On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the eve of the post–World War II civil rights movement.…

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