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	Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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		The city administration feels that the riots were brought on to discredit the [William Hale] Thompson forces, while leaders of the anti-Thompson forces, prominent among them being State’s Attorney Maclay Hoyne, are sure that the administration is directly responsible.
		The fourth contributing cause was the woeful inefficiency and criminal negligence of the police authorities of Chicago, both prior to and during the riots.
		During the riots the conduct of the police force as a whole was equally open to criticism.
	web.mala.bc.ca /davies/H322/Chicago.8Reasons.htm (2399 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- Chicago Race Riot of 1919
		The riot began on July 27, after an African-American youth named Eugene Williams, while swimming with friends in Lake Michigan near 29th Street, strayed into an area informally reserved for the exclusive use of white bathers.
		Photograph: "Chicago race riot, five policemen and one soldier with rifle standing on street corner," 1919 [Library of Congress]
		Source: Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1922), pgs.
	chicago.urban-history.org /scrapbks/raceriot/raceriot.htm (897 words)

	ipedia.com: Chicago, Illinois Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Chicago was first settled by Europeans when Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Haitian of African descent, settled on the Chicago River.
		On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was incorporated as a town with a population of 350.
		Chicago is considered to be one of the largest Democratic strongholds in the United States, as an example, the citizens of Chicago have not elected a Republican mayor since 1927 when William Thompson was voted into office.
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	The Chicago Defender
		Instead, African Americans were referred to as "the Race" and fl men and women as "Race men and Race women." The Chicago Defender's local circulation soon surpassed that of the three rival papers that existed in the Chicago area at that time: The Broad Ax, The Illinois Idea, and The Conservator.
		The Chicago Defender was the first fl newspaper to have a circulation over 100,000, the first to have a health column, and the first to have a full page of comic strips.
		Doreski, C.K. "Chicago, Race, and the Rhetoric of the 1919 Riot." Prospects 1993 18: 283-309.
	www.pbs.org /blackpress/news_bios/defender.html (991 words)

	Homicide in Chicago :: 1919: The Race Riot
		Homicide in Chicago :: 1919: The Race Riot
		The Race Riot in Chicago in the summer of 1919 left 38 dead, including twenty three fl men and boys; and 537 injured, of whom 342 were fl, and hundreds homeless.
		Race riots in other Midwestern and northern cities took place about the same time, as social tensions were aggravated by economic and labor problems after the World War I armistice.
	homicide.northwestern.edu /crimes/raceriot (105 words)

	Chicago's 1919 Race Riots \| Chicago Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A race riot rocked Chicago's south side in the summer of 1919, leaving 38 dead, more than 500 injured, and many more homeless.
		"Chicago's 1919 Race Riots" puts the riot in the context of post-WWI Chicago, and then re-creates the riot itself, using rare photographs.
		Read "Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919" by William M. Tuttle, Jr.
	www.wttw.com /chicagostories/raceriots.html (125 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
		Having in mind the basic facts in the problem of race relations and the conclusions from a careful study of the various phases of these relations in Chicago, the Commission presents for consideration and action of state and local authorities, and of the social agencies and citizens of Chicago, the following recommendations and suggestions.
		We recommend that public-school principals and teachers encourage participation by children of both races in student activities as a means of promoting mutual understanding and good race relations in such schools and in the community.
		Our inquiry has shown that insufficiency in amount and quality of housing is an all-important factor in Chicago's race problem; there must be more and better housing to accommodate the great increase in Negro population which was at the rate of 148 per cent from 1910 to 1920.
	chicago.urban-history.org /scrapbks/raceriot/rr_txt02.htm (2630 words)

	Drive-by shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drive-by shootings are popular among criminals (and gang members in particular), because the shooter is already in the getaway car.
		One of the first documented drive-by shootings in the United States was during the Chicago, Illinois Race Riot of 1919.
		Drive-by shootings became common during the gang wars of the Prohibition era.
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	"The Problem" and "Family Histories": Charles Johnson Analyzes the Causes of the Chicago Race Riot
		Charles Johnson—a Chicago Urban League official, the associate executive secretary of the integrated commission, and the principal author of its report—hoped that by thoroughly describing the sentiments and living conditions of African Americans and the similarities between European immigrants and recent fl migrants to Chicago, the report would generate sympathy for the city’s fl community.
		A- is light in complexion and is frequently mistaken for a white man. Several years ago, without announcing his race, he obtained work in a label factory and remained for some time until it was discovered that he was not a white man, and therefore the only Negro in the establishment.
		They have moved four times since coming to Chicago in 1919, once to be nearer work, once to get out of a neighborhood that suffered during the riot, and twice to find a more desirable neighborhood for their family.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/4977 (7327 words)

	Gangs and the 1919 Race Riot
		The history of this riot, and the crucial role of white gangs, is told in the 1922 report of The Chicago Commission on Race Relations.
		The incident which sparked the riot was the drowning of a fl youth after he drifted onto a white area of a beach, on a hot, 96 degree day.
		The reasons for the riot, however, lie with segregation, vicious racism, and the organized activities of white gangs, many of which were sponsored by Chicago's political machine.
	www.gangresearch.net /ChicagoGangs/earlygangs/Riotbegins.html (1345 words)

	Carl Sandburg and the Chicago Race Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Chicago, along with other cities, such as Washington, D.C., and Omaha, was experiencing greater racial tensions than ever before.
		The rioting continued all day, and before the night was over, fls had stabbed five whites, shot one, and beaten four others.
		In an article about the riots he quoted a fl union official, "It's working people killing each other, that's all there is to these race riots." The whites were working people just as the fls were working people.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/ihy970454.html (987 words)

	79.02.04: The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880-1950
		The greatest number of race riots occurred during and just after World War I. During this period the North was concerned with the tremendous migration of Blacks from the South, and the displacement of some whites by Blacks in jobs and residences, which escalated social tensions between the races.
		Race riots were caused by a great number of social, political and economic factors.
		The social-political factors that caused the increase in race riots.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html (5745 words)

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		This was due in part to the introduction of many Negroes who were unfamiliar with city ways....Little was done to teach them the rudimentary principles of sanitation, of conduct or of their new status as citizens under a system different from that in the South....Their carefree, at times irresponsible...conduct caused complications difficult to adjust.
		"The recent race riots at Washington resulting in the death of a number of white and colored citizens, followed by similar occurrences in Chicago, are a disgrace to American civilization.
		There are those who...believe that the real way to ameliorate conditions is to educate the negro for life by vocational and character training, and by thus increasing his value to his community and himself to moderate and neutralize the prejudice...
	marchand.ucdavis.edu /lessons/HS/ChicagoHS.htm (3631 words)

	Black Holocaust in America
		From riot to reparations the entire truth about Black Wall Street and what happened on May 31st 1921 and the results of the second case in US History where reparations were granted to victims, survivors and descendants of white race riots.
		In the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, police flew airplanes and dropped nitroglycerin and dynamite on 600 Black businesses, burned 1500 homes and destroyed a 35 square block area of the Black community of Tulsa also known as the Greenwood District.
		White Race Riots occurred mainly in the northern states, while individual lynchings were more common in rural areas in the South.
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	"A Crowd of Howling Negroes": The Chicago Daily Tribune Reports the Chicago Race Riot, 1919
		The Chicago Daily Tribune, long considered the most antagonistic of all the city’s papers toward African Americans, detailed the day’s violence, the good deeds of white policemen who were sent to Chicago’s South Side, and the injuries they sustained at the hands of fl rioters.
		The rioting spread through the fl belt and by midnight had thrown the entire south side into a state of turmoil.
		Riot calls were sent to the Cottage Grove avenue station and more reserves were sent into the fl belt.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/4975 (1786 words)

	Chicago Race Riot of 1919 -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Transcript of a discussion considering the riots in Indonesia, from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (May 14, 1998), with Abigail Abrash, program director for Asia and the Middle East at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, and William Liddle, a professor at Ohio State University specializing in Indonesian studies.
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	Walter White, The Causes of the Chicago Race Riot
		Walter White, "The Causes of the Chicago Race Riot," The Crisis, XVIII (October, 1919), p.
		The city administration feels that the riots were brought on to discredit the Thompson forces, while leaders of the anti-Thompson forces, prominent among them being State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne, are sure that the administration is directly responsible.
		The Negro in Chicago, as in every other part of America, is fighting for the fundamental rights of citizenship.
	www.yale.edu /glc/archive/1126.htm (2219 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: LONGVIEW RACE RIOT OF 1919
		The Longview Race Riot occurred during the Red Summer, as May to October of 1919 has been called.
		Jones, a teacher in the Longview school system and a local correspondent for the Chicago Defender, was held responsible for the article, and on Thursday, July 10, he was accosted and beaten, supposedly by two brothers of the Kilgore woman.
		William Tuttle, "Violence in a `Heathen' Land: the Longview Race Riot of 1919," Phylon 33 (1972).
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/jcl2.html (790 words)

	Chicago '68 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (Blacks in the New World)
		Farber's book deals with the three main forces behind the Chicago protest: the Yippies, the Mobilization, and Mayor Daley and his government.
		I found the book to be well-balanced overall, giving each group credit and criticism, allowing the reader to make their own judgements.
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	Race Riot
		A race riot is any riot which occurs due to real or perceived inequality or oppression between members of different...
		The panel, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission, was created by the state legislature in 1997 to investigate violence that...
		In the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, police flew airplanes and dropped nitroglycerin and dynamite on 600...
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	CPL Chicago 1919 Race Riots
		By this time rioting had already erupted there precipitated by vocal and physical demonstrations against a group of fls who wanted to use the beach in defiance of its tacit designation as a "white" beach.
		The rioting escalated when a white police officer refused to arrest the white man, by now identified as the perpetrator of the separate incident near 26th Street.
		Anger over this, coupled with rumors and innuendoes that spread in both camps regarding Eugene Williams death led to 5 days of rioting in Chicago that ultimately claimed the lives of 23 fls and 15 whites, with 291 wounded and maimed.
	cpl.lib.uic.edu /004chicago/disasters/riots_race.html (385 words)

	"Ghastly Deeds of Race Rioters Told": The Chicago Defender Reports the Chicago Race Riot, 1919
		With the approach of darkness the rioting gave prospects of being continued throughout the night.
		Some of the passengers alighting themselves from cars were thrown from the elevated structure, suffering broken legs, fractured skulls, and death.
		The block between State street and Wabash avenue on East 35th street was the scene of probably the most shooting and rioting of the evening and a pitched battle ensued between the police, whites and fls.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/4976 (2202 words)

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	Iowa Commission on the Status of African Americans
		By this time rioting had already erupted there precipitated by vocal and physical demonstrations against a group of fls that wanted to use the beach in defiance of its tacit designation as a "white" beach.
		What followed was six days of rioting that claimed the lives of 34 people, injured 1,100 and caused an estimated 100 million dollars in damage.
		The origins of urban unrest in Detroit were rooted in a multitude of political, economic, and social factors including police abuse, lack of affordable housing, urban renewal projects, economic inequality, fl militancy, and rapid demographic change.
	www.state.ia.us /government/dhr/saa/AA_culture/race_riots.html (1209 words)

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		Even though they infused the America’s with cultural significance and richness, such as the proliferation of jazz during the 1920’s, the fl man was often persecuted.
		According to the report, “Two colored men are reported to have been killed and approximately fifty whites and Negroes injured, a number probably fatally, in race riots that broke out at south side beaches yesterday” (Azimuth, 2003).
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		Learn more about List of riots in the online encyclopedia.
		This is a chronological list of historical riots:
		1182 - Venetians and other "Latins" are massacred during a riot in Constantinople
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	Black History Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The riot was triggered by the death of a fl youth on July 27.
		On September 27, 1966 a riot broke out in San Francisco's Hunters Point, a fl neighborhood, when a white police officer shot and killed a sixteen-year-old fl as he fled the scene of a stolen car.
		Springfield's two prominent claims, one positive and one negative, to national recognition are the home of Abraham Lincoln and the infamous 1908 race riot.
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