The Red Summer of 1919-The Race War you Never knew about...

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Smh not much has changed 100 years later we still having the same arguments

 

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Bump

 

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Do you believe the riots of 67 should be reclassified as the second red summer?

 

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Do you believe the riots of 67 should be reclassified as the second red summer?

I believe so

 

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a cartoon from the Chicago Tribune showing the Mammy stereotype suggesting that African Americans belonged to the South instead of in Northern cities. This ran during the race riots.

 

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These charts from The Negro in Chicago depict the biased reporting on the African-American Community in the Chicago daily newspapers.

 

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On August 30, 1919, about a month after the riots, The Chicago Defender published this photograph of Eugene Williams.