Sandburg Home Commemorates Chicago Race Riot Anniversary

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Race Riot with an event on Saturday, Aug. 3, from 2 to 4pm at the Henderson County Main Library. The park has invited Claire Hartfield, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author, to read from her most recent book, A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Hartfield is a nationally recognized author and education leader.