Red Summer: The Summer Of 1919 And The Awakening Of Black AmericaOn June 26, 1919, as many as 10,000 whites gathered in a field just out side Ellisville, Mississippi, to watch a bound, exhausted, and wounded black man named John Hartfield as he was hoisted up the branch of a giant sweet gum tree. Vendors sold flags, trinkets, and souvenir photographs. Local politicians delivered speeches. Young boys crowded in the tree to look down at the wild eyed, screaming Hartfield. It was a country fair, political rally, and