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3 Αυγ 2019 · 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...
3 Οκτ 2020 · White mobs flooded the city’s Black neighborhoods, lighting homes on fire and attacking residents. Over the course of a week, 38 people died and over 500 sustained injuries — with Black Chicagoans making up a majority of the victims.
Sparked by a white police officer’s refusal to make an arrest in the murder of a Black teenager, violence in Chicago lasted almost a week. At least 38 people were killed and thousands of Black homes were looted and damaged during Red Summer.
30 Ιουλ 2019 · Even though the Illinois Reserve Militia was called in to restore order, 38 people—23 black, 15 white—were dead, more than 350 reported injuries and 1,000 black homes had been burned down.
14 Οκτ 2021 · In short, Black men faced the lowest risk of imprisonment in counties where people who could influence the incarceration rate sought to exploit them and the highest risk of imprisonment in counties where such people sought to exclude them.
26 Ιουλ 2019 · From 1917 through 1919, some two dozen black homes in Chicago were bombed. A six-year-old girl named Garnetta Ellis died in one attack; none of the bombings were ever solved by the police. As soldiers returned from the war to find African Americans in many of the jobs they used to hold, the tension escalated.
By the end, 38 were dead (23 African Americans, 15 white people), 537 injured, and 1,000 Black families made homeless. The horror of the Chicago Race Riot helped shock the nation out of indifference to its growing racial conflict.
