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A clear, eye-opening look at the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 and the forces that fed them. This book compiles contemporary reportage and analysis to explain how housing, politics, labor, and race collided in a single turbulent week.
Based on articles from the Chicago Daily News, it surveys the city’s Black Belt, wartime migration, and the tensions that flared into violence. It offers concrete context—from population shifts to real estate pressures and union dynamics—without dwelling on fiction or speculation.
Readers gain a ground-level view of how urban systems, race relations, and economic change intersected in a pivotal moment in American history. The material illuminates not just what happened, but why similar tensions can emerge in other cities and times.
- Keys to the factors that made the Chicago riot unique: housing, politics, and labor dynamics
- Profiles of the Black Belt and its role in city power and community life
- Accounts of real estate pressures, rent changes, and migration patterns
- Interviews and perspectives from local officials, employers, and community leaders
Ideal for readers of American history, urban studies, and race relations who want a grounded, documentary view of this watershed event.
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Since permanent degradation is unthinkable, and amal gamation undesirable both for blacks and whites, the ideal would seem to lie in what might be called race parallel ism. Parallel lines may be equally long and equally straight; they do not join except in infinity, which is further away than anyone need worry about just now. We shall have to work out with the Negro a relationship which gives him complete access to all the machinery of our common civilization, and yet allows him to live so that no Negro need dream of a white heaven and of bleached angels. Pride of race will come to the Negro when a dark skin is no longer associated with poverty, ignorance, misery, terror and insult. When this pride arises every white man in America will be the happier for it. He will be able then, as he IS not now, to enjoy the finest quality of civilized living — the fellowship of different men.
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