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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.
7 Ιουλ 2021 · The Chicago Fire of 1874 and the World’s Columbian Exposition Led to the Formation of the Black Belt. 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.
The Black population in Chicago significantly increased in the early to mid-1900s, due to the Great Migration out of the South. While African Americans made up less than two percent of the city's population in 1910, by 1960 the city was nearly 25 percent Black.
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.
Most African Americans were skeptical about benefiting from the New Deal, and racial discrimination remained rampant. However, a cohort of black advisors and activists critiqued these government programs for excluding African Americans and enacted some reforms.
3 Απρ 2014 · Evidence from historian Christopher Reed, a specialist in African American experience in twentieth century Chicago, seems to confirm the fact that the Chicago Relief and Aid Society did not discriminate against blacks when making aid distributions.
11 Ιαν 2016 · African Americans devised a mass exodus from the Jim Crow South, largely at the urging of The Chicago Defender.
