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Family leaving damaged home after the Chicago race riot of 1919. Beginning on July 27, the Chicago race riot marked the greatest massacre of Red Summer. Chicago's beaches along Lake Michigan were segregated by custom. When Eugene Williams, a black youth, swam into an area on the South Side customarily used by whites, he was stoned and drowned.
The New York race riots of 1919 developed with increasing racial tension and violent incidents in New York City.These riots were a part of the Red Summer, [1] [circular reference] a series of violent terrorist attacks on black communities in many cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919.
Race Riot Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. (Urbana, Illinois; University of Illinois Press, 1970). Waskow, Arthur I. From Race Riot to Sit-In, 1919 and the 1960s: A Study in the Connections Between Conflict and Violence. (New York, New York; Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966).
One hundred and four years ago this month, on Oct. 31, 1919, a white mob in Corbin, Ky., rounded up approximately 200 Black people, drove them onto boxcars, and sent them to Knoxville, Tenn.
The Riot of 1919 was one of several violent racial incidents that occurred during the so-called Red Summer when race riots plagued cities across the United States. The riot was one of the worst racial episodes in Knoxville's history and shattered the city's vision of itself as a racially tolerant Southern town. [6]
It was one of the many race riots in 1919 in the United States during what became known as Red Summer, a period after World War I known for numerous riots occurring mostly in urban areas. The riot ended after local and state officials took actions to impose military authority and quell further violence.
As a result, the most detailed information concerning the riot comes from memos and reports collected by the federal government. [1] [2] According to Jan Voogd, author of Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919, Bisbee was a "stratified white man's mining camp
Some say the race riots of the Red Summer of 1919 set the city on a course of racial segregation that remains to this day. Many don't know about one of the darkest chapters of Chicago's history ...