Forgive us, but we only recently became aware of Elizabeth Dale's "digital monograph," Fight for Rights: The Chicago 1919 Riots and the Struggle for Black Justice, a publication of LibraryPress@UF, an imprint of the UF Press and the George A. Smathers Library at the University of Florida:
This is a history of the fight for rights and citizenship undertaken by Black people in Chicago in that city’s first century. Covering the period from the 1830s to 1930s, this book looks at their successes and the forces that arose—in the streets, in city government, in the courts, and on the police force—to limit their extent. And it looks at how, and why, individuals and institutions attempted to justify those limits over time.
Fight for Rights is instructive not only on the Chicago riots but also as an example of a digital monograph and the publication initiatives of university libraries.
--Dan Ernst
