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7 Ιουλ 2021 · The fire of 1874 destroyed more than 80% of Black-owned property in Chicago. But Black people persisted and built vital cultural traditions and institutions in Chicago. The graphic shows an 1874 map of an aerial view of part of the city of Chicago adjoining the river with a multi-block area in dark (fire) of the burnt district.
After the Great Chicago Fire, Chicago mayor Joseph Medill appointed the city's first Black fire company of nine men and the first Black police officer. Great Migration [ edit ]
3 Αυγ 2019 · 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...
The long and well-documented history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and racial violence in the South overshadows the persistent reality of racial discrimination, systemic segregation, and entrenched inequality north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Chicago Stories explores the various methods tried to combat the problem, and one engineer’s bold solution. In 1958, a tragic Catholic school fire at Our Lady of the Angels in the city’s Humboldt Park neighborhood took the lives of 92 children and 3 nuns.
11 Ιαν 2016 · African Americans devised a mass exodus from the Jim Crow South, largely at the urging of The Chicago Defender.
10 Οκτ 2016 · became the story of the Chicago Fire for Americans in 1871. Newspapers as well as book-length accounts carried lengthy and graphic portrayals of the chaos created by the fire.
