The Nadir, when did it end?

When I was pondering what this unit was about, a quote I heard a couple of days before appeared in my head.

“In History, the backgrounds change, the costumes change, but the human beings in the stories are remarkably similar.”- Dan Carlin

The nadir is the “lowest” point in United States history. This was the period after the civil war when racism was the lifeblood of the American way of life. This was a period of American history when the nation was hugely divided. Lynching a black man over something petty wasn't out of the ordinary, the police and governments were all against the African-American communities. Going out of their way to further drive stacks into the already huge gap in race relations of the time. You can see some stark similarities to the 21st century when you look back at this period.

The Chicago race riot of 1919 started after a group of white men attacked a black boy who was on one of Lake Michigan’s white beaches, killing him. This caused several days of riots with whites and blacks clashing. Causing Thousands of injuries and 38 deaths, houses of black people were burnt down. This is eerily reminiscent of the 2020 George Floyd protest which thankfully didn’t kill 38 people like in 1919, but if the nation was ever so slightly more divided the outcome could have been vastly different.

So if the nadir was the lowest point in American history, where are we now? I don't think we're at the lowest but we definitely aren't much higher.

Source:https://online.smc.edu/courses/16602/pages/two-primary-sources-race-riots-in-chicago-1919