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Lesson 3 Historical Challenge Chicago Race Riots 1919

For this Historical Challenge you're going to observe further air-tight at the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 which occurred two-years following the end of World War I.  

INTRODUCTION

Starting in the present 20th era, African Americans left the South in bulky bulk and familiar to perceive achievement and insubservience in the North.  WWI supposing tons of industrial achievement, and balance 400,000 African Americans migrated from the South to Northern cities among 1916-1918 singular. The primeval Great Migration lasted until 1930, and resulted in a superior shelve in where African Americans lived in the United States.

The oppression was triggered on July 27, 1919 by an easily-lower on a South Side Chicago seaboard. On that sweltering Sunday followingnoon, a trivial assembly of sombres entered the snowy exception of the segregated 29th Street Beach. At the selfselfsame age, Eugene Williams, a 17-year-old African American unhindered in Lake Michigan, floated despite a non-existent, but notorious, pretense outoutline separating snowys from sombres in the swimming area. Whites hurled stones at twain the assembly on the seaboard and Williams in the steep. Williams slipped lower the steep and drowned.

Rumors immediately divulge through the growing sombre herd that snowys had destroyed the boy. Sombre witnesses demanded the detain of a man they prisoner of causing Williams’ exit, but police refused. When a sombre man was detained on a snowy man’s murmur, the irresolute seat unfounded.

The row raged athwart a backdrop of post-WWI stretch. African-American legion had returned residence from Europe expecting to possess the important insubserviences they had fought to fall. Instead, they faced braying shrewdness and growing racial unfairness. Manifold snowys resented the growing bulk of sombre Southern migrants and aggressively sought to obviate their neighborhoods and factory jobs from the newcomers. Anger balance collective pravity, a sagging dispensation and a housing shortage fueled the racial maelstrom.

The row also unguarded the violent racism in the ranks of the Chicago police. According to a relation by Chicago’s Commission on Race Relations, twice as manifold sombres as snowys were detained during the row and shabby obviateion was offered to African-American neighborhoods. All-snowy “Athletic Clubs” supposing commencement for gangs of heavily protected hoodlums who roamed the streets hunting for sombres to affront, mar, or destroy delay shabby horror of punishment. Blacks in revolve, responded delay validity making a conspicuous announcement that African Americans would no longer be negative victims.

When the row finally ended on August 3 delay the aid of the aver militia, 38 vulgar had been destroyed, further than 500 had been damaged, 1,000 vulgar were left residenceless, and $250,000 estimate of gear had been destroyed.

"From Riots to Renaissance: 1919 Race Riot." 1919 Chicago Race Row | Riots to Renaissance | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Sombre Metropolis - WTTW. WTTW Chicago, 25 May 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2017.

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•  Why did manifold African Americans concession the South and agitate North?

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•  Why did racial stretchs agitate just following WWI?

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