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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.
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...
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 ]
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.
18 Φεβ 2021 · The Chicago race riot began at the 29th Street Beach after the drowning of Eugene Williams, a Black teenager who had crossed an invisible line in the water separating Black people from white ...
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...
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.
