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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 Οκτ 2020 · White mobs flooded the city’s Black neighborhoods, lighting homes on fire and attacking residents. Over the course of a week, 38 people died and over 500 sustained injuries — with Black Chicagoans making up a majority of the victims.
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.
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 blacks who...
11 Ιαν 2016 · African Americans devised a mass exodus from the Jim Crow South, largely at the urging of The Chicago Defender.
23 Νοε 2021 · Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of the Great Migration, the outpouring of six million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to cities in the North and West between World War I and the 1970s.
