Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Essay --
On July 1919, Chicago Illinois swept a flutter of destruction that left 23 african americans and 15 whites dead, 537 injured, and everywhere jillion dollars of property damage. This was one of the most devastating of all the 25 campaign riots that occurred in the country during the Red Summers of 1919. Under the pressure of the Great Migration and bread and butter condition worsen, tensions grew in size.. Adding to the racial antipathy that led to the riots were historic conflicts over constancy. For decades white workers in Chicagos stockyards had excluded the black workers, denying them their membership, blacks had often allowed themselves to be used as replacement labor. Despite some positive movement toward integration of labor unions, by the summer of 1919, it all exploded on July 27, where an african son was killed after he crossed an unofficial segregation line and was kill to death. The result would be widespread violence in the streets, turning live against neighbo r, white against black, worker against coworker Throughout Chicago this segregation is quite real. Its reach a point where th...
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