Chicago Race Riots, July 1919

by Carl Sandburg

17 chapters2h 15mEnglish1919

About this book

Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS

1The Chicago Race Riots

441

2The Background

495

3The Negro Migration

431

4Real Estate

401

5Demand for Negro Labor

531

6New Industrial Opportunities

449

7After Each Lynching

580

8Trades for Colored Women

798

9Negroes and Rising Rents

684

10Unions and the Color Line

773

11About Lynchings

439

12Negro Crime Tales

418

13Colored Gamblers

493

14An Official of the Packers

297

15Mr. Julius Rosenwald Interviewed

315

16Federal Action

331