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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 ]
The state extended the franchise to African Americans in 1870 and ended legally sanctioned school segregation in 1874. A state law against discrimination in public places followed in 1885, but it was rarely enforced and did nothing to address widespread employment discrimination.
From the mid-19th century forward, African Americans and their allies mounted a series of challenges to racially separate schools, segregated public accommodations, racially divided workplaces, endemic housing segregation, and discriminatory policing.
10 Οκτ 2016 · Contemporary accounts of the fire always ended with a prediction that Chicago would recover, but in describing the fire and its consequences those accounts would typically create a dramatic plot in which the fate of the city was thought in doubt. This story, used over and over in newspapers and books on the fire, told of
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...
11 Ιαν 2016 · African Americans devised a mass exodus from the Jim Crow South, largely at the urging of The Chicago Defender. By Ethan Michaeli. A group of African Americans seeking extension work in...
