Causes Of The Chicago Race Riot

In Harlem Runs Wild, Claude McKay depicts the Harlem Riot of 1935 as merely "…a gesture of despair of a bewildered, baffled, and disillusioned people." (McKay 224) The Harlem Riot of 1935 was spontaneous and unpremeditated. It was not a race riot in the sense of physical conflict between white and non-white groups as there was little direct violence to white persons. McKay states, "The mass riot in Harlem was not a race riot." (McKay 221) Its distinguishing feature was the persons' attack upon property rather than persons, and resentment against whites that, while exploiting Negroes, denied them an opportunity to work. Communists did not instigate the riot, though they

The Civil War was fought over the “race problem,” to determine the place of African-Americans in America. The Union won the war and freed the slaves. However, when President Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, a hopeful promise for freedom from oppression and slavery for African-Americans, he refrained from announcing the decades of hardship that would follow to obtaining the new won “freedom”. Over the course of nearly a century, African-Americans would be deprived and face adversity to their rights. They faced something perhaps worse than slavery; plagued with the threat of being lynched or beat for walking at the wrong place at the wrong time. Despite the addition of the 14th and

Pre-existing racism in Tulsa was the foundation on which all the other causes of the riot were built upon. Wide-spread segregation was still common in America at that time and it was accepted by many in the North and South that whites were inherently superior to blacks. These views were particularly strong in the South, where emancipated blacks were seen as a threat and scourge to white Southern culture, a culture which was utterly dominated by whites and where blacks were oppressed with no hope of equal protection under the law, equal representation, etc. This was also the case in Tulsa in the early 1900s. Blacks were segregated against by the white residents and as a consequence formed their own community, called Greenwood, on the north side of the Frisco Railroad tracks, which was heralded by

According to Harper?s? sources, white sailors begin to join in on the brawl thus further escalating it, while a black man runs to a nearby club and announced that a group of white men had raped and killed a black woman and her daughter. As this rumor spreads, a white group began spreading their own rumors by incorrectly informing others that a white woman had been assaulted. Thus, the destruction that ensues from this riot is simply the product of rumors. According to Baldwin, the same can be stated about the Harlem riot. A rumor is spread of a black soldier being shot in the back and killed, thus incensing the crowds (Baldwin 81). While this is not the truth, it sufficiently ignites the fury of Harlem.The majority of the fighting in the Detroit riot takes place in the valley which is the black

We have always had racial riots since the beginning of American history, from the Stono Rebellion to Charlottesville. Each riot has a reason behind it, for Stono, it was a tribute to the resist of African Americans to the oppressive system of slavery. During the lynching

On July 27, 1919, an African American teen named Eungene Williams crossed the unofficial segregation border on the beaches of Chicago between 25 Th and 27th street trying to escape the hot summer weather, was stoned to death by white beach goers. When the black bystanders accused the group of stoners of killing the young boy, the police refused to arrest the white males and began to arrest the black bystanders on some minor charge. Things really heated up after one of the black bystanders attacked

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In the Journal of the Elaine Race Riots, I got to know the basic criticism that was for almost all the Race Riots that had taken place. However, the sophisticated social, economic and racial analysis of the Racial Riots was relatively new on the scholarly scene. It was, therefore, not surprising comparatively to work that was been undertaken. The problems the poor Negroes faced during the 1919’s. The Negroes had worked hard to raise the cotton crops but there was some trouble regarding the settlements for the cotton crops. The white landlords and the sharecroppers never went along with each other after the cotton was ready to be sold out.

This book review was on the book of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. It was a long-term study done by William M. Tuttle, Jr. Its objective was to make a comprehensive documentation of the events of 1919 in Chicago. The book dealt with all aspects and perspectives of the event. The author’s objective was to leave no stone uncovered. That every aspect would be talked about in detail. Some important aspects that he arose throughout the book are going to be the focal point of this book review.

On 1 May 1866 in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, an altercation between black Union soldiers and Memphis police officers started a chain reaction that eventually brought about what has come to be known as the Memphis Riots of 1866. The group of amicably intoxicated soldiers reacted negatively when told by a small group of officers to break up their party, and although no one was seriously injured, the situation quickly escalated to the point where shots were fired on both sides (Carden 2). This incident, however, was not the cause of the Memphis Riots. Instead, I will argue that the altercation merely served as the spark to set a fire to a whole mess of kindling made of economic, political, and social twigs and branches, which was already in place long before the actual events of the Memphis Riots.

After the end of the Civil War, laws allowed blacks to get an education and were able to manage their own businesses. Since the government created laws that allowed blacks to vote, there has been some controversy between whites and blacks. A major event occurred called the Fusion Coalition. When it was time to vote, people “fused” their voters and hoped to defeat the Democratic Party by doing this. Propaganda and media is put up all over town to intimidate people and make people believe certain things, based on what type of propaganda it is. People have started to fall for these propaganda posters, and it causes people to believe whatever they see. This sparked the current Race Riot because it actually led people to believe that blacks are bad and that they should not have a say.

During the race riot in Chicago in 1919 white gangs may have been responsible for inventing the drive by shooting. Members of white gangs drove through neighborhoods known to have a lot of black occupants. They fired their guns and drove away quickly. Members of the African American communities did not take this lightly, they also returned the gun fire (Hadergorn 197). The street gangs became a sign of lower income areas.

Despite the ending of slavery in 1865, the Jim Crow Laws were a racial caste system made in 1877 for the use of discrimination and slander against black people alike. “ It was a way of life”(Jim Crow Museum). That is right, a way of life, people lived in discrimination every day. There were only a few people who were willing to stand up for what they believed was right like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, even the Black Panther Party. They all sought after freedom from the chains of segregation. The Jim Crow Laws prevented people from being who they wanted to be when they wanted to be for years. There were public forms of segregation like protests, and newspapers publicizing racial stereotypes towards black people. “Their articles reinforced anti-black stereotypes”(Jim Crow Museum). Just like how major institutions supported the oppression of blacks and not whites.

In Chicago, on May 4, 1886, a riot broke out between German-born labor radicals and Chicago law enforcement officers. The demonstration, organized to protest the killing of a striker by the Chicago police the day before and for an eight-hour workday, attracted about One thousand five hundred protestors. However, when the riot began there were only approximately three hundred protestors left due to rain. About half way through the rally, two hundred Chicago policemen arrived to end the protest. The riot started when an unknown individual threw a bomb at the police officers. The crowd of officers then opened fire on the protestors, killing over twelve and injuring almost one hundred. About suspects were convicted and their sentences ranged from fifteen years in prison to life in prison to execution. The events that took place in Chicago, on May 4, 1886 were horrible, clearly demonstrating the importance of peacefully protesting and that the U.S. government should not interfere with demonstrations such as this one.

The bloodiest "Civil War" war in the United States history was not cure of everything. After the war, social problems existed for long years. White people and black people kept fighting. Racism was a very big problem. White people killed lots of black people for no reason. Even after KKK, white people kept causing problems and killing black people. One of the examples is the Elaine Race Riot. This bloody riot started in September 30, 1919 in Phillips County 's Elaine Town in Arkansas. In this essay, I am going to write about this riot and its details.