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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 ]
Riots occurred almost daily starting on April 7 and continued until late July. 21 416 July 27 – August 3, 1919 Racial Chicago race riot of 1919 - The deadliest of wave of race riots across America during the Red Summer of 1919. Started after a black swimmer drowned at a segregated beach after being hit by a rock thrown by a white man.
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 ...
A Black teenager whose death along a segregated Chicago beach sparked a weeklong race riot in 1919 that left dozens of people dead is finally getting a grave marker. A stone marker is tentatively ...
Coit, Jonathan S., "'Our Changed Attitude': Armed Defense and the New Negro in the 1919 Chicago Race Riot", Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 11 (April 2012), 225–56. Danns, Dionne. "Chicago High School Students' Movement For Quality Public Education, 1966-1971" (PDF). Journal of African American History: 138– 150. Danns, Dionne.
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 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 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.