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The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the riot, 38 people died (23 black and 15 white). [ 3 ]
1968 Chicago riots - One of the over 100 riots that erupted nationwide after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Most of the Chicago rioting occurred on the West Side and was the second deadliest (11 fatalities, versus 13 in the Washington D.C. riots) of the riots in the nation after King's death. 11 500 August 23–28, 1968 Political
The latter was the site of a race riot in 1949 in which whites attacked blacks, mostly migrants and descendants from the South. In 1960, some 53 of the neighborhood's 51,347 residents were non-white, and of those 53 residents, three were black. [ 1 ]
The 1968 Chicago riots, in the United States, were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people flooding out onto the streets of major cities, primarily in black urban areas. [1] Over 100 major U.S. cities experienced disturbances, resulting in roughly $50 million in damage.
The Chicago Commission on Race Relations was a non-partisan, interracial investigative committee, appointed by Illinois governor Frank Lowden.The commission was set up after the Chicago riots of July and August 1919 in "which thirty-eight lives were lost, twenty-three Negros and fifteen whites, and 537 persons were injured". [1]
A bike tour in Chicago brings riders up close to Chicago's 1919 race riots, honoring the 38 victims and highlighting the riots' impact.
The 1966 Chicago West Side riots occurred between July 12 and 15 in Chicago, Illinois. After police arrested a man who was wanted for armed robbery, black residents took to the streets in anger and looted and burned various stores throughout the West Side until the arrival of 1,200 National Guardsmen on July 15. Violence quickly subsided and ...
The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century. Feldberg, Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict (1975); Feldberg.