Chicago Race Riot of 1919

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A map of the riot-affected areas on the South Side of Chicago, with the Union Stock Yards visible. North is to the right.

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago on July 27th, 1919. It lasted for several days and ended only after nearly 6,000 National Guard troops were deployed to put an end to the violence on the night of July 30th. Most of the rioting, murder, and arson was concentrated in the city's Black Belt, but violent conflict occurred in areas throughout the city, including the Chicago Loop. The riot left 38 people dead, 537 injured and approximately 1000 homeless.

[edit] References

• Tuttle, William. Race Riot Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (Urbana, IL; University of Illinois Press, 1970)
• Spear, Allan. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto 1890-1920 (Chicago, IL; University of Chicago Press, 1967)
• Sandburg, Carl. The Chicago Race Riots July 1919 (New York; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969)
• The Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago (Chicago, IL; University of Chicago Press, 1922)

[edit] External links

• CPL Chicago1919 Race Riots
• Jazz Age Chicago-The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

[edit] See also

• Red Summer of 1919
• Mass racial violence in the United States