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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 1874 fire became known as the Second Chicago Fire. Coupled with the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, it shaped the trajectory of Black Chicago through the formation of the Black Belt and the population growth that followed.
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.
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.
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.
Chicago's forgotten fire of 1874 displaced the majority of black families living in the downtown area. Most of these families then moved to less populated communities on the South Side. Their choice of location would have a major impact on the future housing patterns of African Americans in the city.
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...
