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Posted on Aug 3, 2019
Opinion | How a Brutal Race Riot Shaped Modern Chicago
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“The relation of whites and Negroes in the United States is our most grave and perplexing domestic problem.” So wrote the authors of “The Negro in Chicago,” a landmark 1922 study of a race riot that ripped through that city a century ago this summer. That conflagration, which began on July 27, consumed the city for three days and left 38 people dead and 537 injured. Whites set fire to scores of black-owned houses, leaving a thousand African-Americans homeless.
For several nights, gangs of white youth rampaged through black neighborhoods, targeting blacks who defended themselves by sniping back from behind makeshift street barricades. On Monday, July 28, the worst day of violence, white rioters pulled blacks off streetcars at busy South Side intersections and beat them with planks, pipes, bricks and fists. The next morning, a roving gang of whites, including soldiers and sailors in uniform, swept through the downtown streets of the Loop, killing two blacks and injuring many more. Large portions of the second-largest city in America became battlegrounds for open race war, which only rain and deployment of reserve guardsmen managed to quell.
For several nights, gangs of white youth rampaged through black neighborhoods, targeting blacks who defended themselves by sniping back from behind makeshift street barricades. On Monday, July 28, the worst day of violence, white rioters pulled blacks off streetcars at busy South Side intersections and beat them with planks, pipes, bricks and fists. The next morning, a roving gang of whites, including soldiers and sailors in uniform, swept through the downtown streets of the Loop, killing two blacks and injuring many more. Large portions of the second-largest city in America became battlegrounds for open race war, which only rain and deployment of reserve guardsmen managed to quell.
Opinion | How a Brutal Race Riot Shaped Modern Chicago
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The whites continue to act this way because our leadership is racist. I can recount hundreds of out of control vicious attacks by whites on backs over the years Charlottesville was a recent example, but quickly lost to the history books because oops white lost their temper again. A prime example of racism is like PTS where the anger is way out of proportion to the problem. If whites are the oppressors then they must fix the problem, right? So when the problem is not fixed???
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Sgt Will Paige
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SSgt Ray Stone - Yes good man, how do you deal with these racist white supremacist leaning posts. Where all blacks seem to be a threat to many whites, yet they serve next to people of all colors and faiths and bear witness to their honor and bravery. From the Blacks that fought in the civil war Tuskegee airmen and ran out nation as the best President to ever live in our time since Kennedy.
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SSgt Ray Stone
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Sgt Will Paige Not to mention Blacks that served during WW2 were treated worse than NAZI POWs when they returned home and denied the GI BILL and VA Home loan
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Thank you for the interesting history share brother Chip.
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