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The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919. [1][2] During the riot, 38 people died (23 black and 15 white). [3] .
On July 27, 1919, an African American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths.
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was the most severe of approximately 25 race riots throughout the U.S. in the ‘Red Summer’ following World War I; a manifestation of racial frictions intensified by Black migration to the North, industrial labor competition, urban overcrowding, and greater militancy among Black war veterans.
On Sunday, July 27, 1919, thousands of Chicagoans sought relief from the brutal heat on the shores of Lake Michigan. Among them was Eugene Williams, a seventeen-year-old African American.
On July 27, 1919 when large crowds of white and black patrons went to the Lake Michigan beach in Chicago, Illinois to seek relief from the 96 degree heat, an angry dispute erupted over the stoning of Eugene Williams, a young African American swimmer who inadvertently crossed a segregated boundary into the “white” swimming area.
Jolting Chicago during the early years of the Great Migration, the riot cast a shadow over race relations in the city for decades. A hundred years later, it remains the worst outbreak of...
On Sunday, July 27, 1919, thousands of Chicagoans sought relief from the brutal heat on the shores of Lake Michigan. Among them was Williams, a seventeen-year-old African American who was on a raft with some friends.
Interactive map built by UChicago scholar and students sheds new light on riots. On the afternoon of July 27, 1919, Eugene Williams drifted across an imaginary color line in the water at 29th Street Beach. Soon, white residents began throwing stones, preventing the black teenager from coming ashore.
The Race Riot of 1919. On Sunday, July 27, 1919, an unusually hot summer day, Black seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams and four of his friends took a homemade wooden raft out into Lake Michigan on the South Side.
In the summer of 1919, both Black and white commentators generally used the term “race riot” to refer to the racial violence in Chicago and elsewhere in the United States. We define “race riot” as racist mob violence perpetrated by white people against Black people.