Race Riots In Chicago

A racially segregated Chicago had experienced few race riots prior to 1919. However, between April 1919 and October 1919, race riots spanned the nation; this became known as the Red Summer. On July 27, 1919, Chicagoans started to express their emotions on racial issues, which turned into violence, lasting several days and resulting in the deaths, injuries, and displacement of hundreds of people. During this time, Chicagoans opinions regarding racism led to extreme chaos, leaving African Americans and whites fighting with each other for wealth and opportunities. The relatively-invisible line between blacks and whites in Chicago became bolder, deepening the rift between the races. As a result of the gruesome events that occurred in the summer of 1919, segregation in Chicago deepened. Chicago city officials created the Chicago Commission of Race Relations, comprised of six whites and six blacks, with the goal of solving large racial issues in Chicago, such as housing for blacks and job competition. Today, Chicago is more desegregated, but it was an arduous journey and is still a work in progress. It is still a predominant issue, and there are many recurring examples of racial violence in Chicago currently. This makes racial inequality an even more important issue in Chicago communities, and the legacy of this racial violence continues to haunt this persistently segregated city.

In 1921 Tulsa had the wealthiest black neighborhood in the country. On Sunday’s women wore Satin dresses and diamonds while the men wore silk shirts and gold chains. Famous people lived their like Dr. A.C. Jackson who was considered the most skilled black surgeon in America and had a net worth of $100,000. The Greenwood a suburb of Tulsa was the type of community that African Americans are still today attempting to reclaim and rebuild.

In the article “Chicago police have no regard for lives of minorities,” by Mark Berman from The Washington Post the issue of racism within the Chicago police department is brought forth. The department itself says it is failing to hold officers accountable and not doing enough to combat a “justified” lack of trust from the community. A task force has been researching this issue and they found has come to the point that some in the community do not feel safe in any encounter with the police. The force discovered that people of color have disproportionately negative experiences with the police over an extended period of time. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel stated that we do not a task force to know that there is racism in Chicago, but the real question

The 43-year-old Rosa Parks sitting alone in a bus in Montgomery. Elizabeth Eckford surrounded by an angry mob in Little Rock, Arkansas. The valiant James Merideth writhing on the ground after being shot on a Mississippi highway. Buses ridden by an interracial group of riders being attacked and lit in flames in Alabama. Waterhoses blasting hundreds of protesters in Birmingham. The attack of peaceful demonstators at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma during what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

*Starts out with a few interviews on what change the 1919 Race Riots brought and the effects of the riots in today’s world.*

A riot can start with something as big as the need for education or a substance as unimportant as disco music. Yes, you heard me, disco. In Chicago, 1979, a riot occurred because of the dreaded 60s/70s funk pop music. Now obviously, there are better, more meaningful topics to be against. If I had to choose three subjects that I would proudly stand up for, they would be my individuality, fairness of rights for women around the world, and equality for everyone.

Seventy-five percent of blacks surveyed felt that police violence happens because there are not enough serious consequences for the police behavior. Sixty-two percent of whites said the violence stemmed from civilians confronting the police and/or not cooperating with the police when they are stopped.

Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our schools, workforces, and anywhere else where racism would be at. Hate crimes are our races because most of the races like black hate whites because they're grandpas and parents might hate them and they probably grew up to be like that and it would be the same with the white-hating the blacks for the same thing. Maybe When either the whites or the blacks grew up the white would be rude to the blacks or the blacks be rude to the whites, that's why they might not like the race of the color of their skin. One reason there is racism in America still is because mostly in the olden days there were a lot of racism from the older people and they have probably carried it on to the modern day and maybe they’re grandchildren carried on and started being rude to other races in school. People nowadays do hate crimes on the new technology like in Chicago these black teenagers went to go kidnap this special needs boy and made him drink out of the toilet and one of the black girls had a knife cut a part of his scalp off of his head. T the Washington Post reports on police

Racial feelings in Chicago, Illinois are very similar today to how they were in the 1950s. The Younger family from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun was the epitome of a lower class, black family during that time. They dealt with the hardships of never having enough money and losing family happiness due to their lack of wealth. Modern-day Chicago can easily be compared to Chicago from the mid 1900s because of the ever-growing amount of poor blacks and the poverty riven African-American neighborhoods throughout the city. Black poverty is still as depressing and common now as it was half a century ago, and this is due to many reasons. The mentality of poor people is comparable to Walter Younger’s mindset from A Raisin in the Sun and his dreams reflect how people today in his same situation might dream. Overall, the city of Chicago by itself has not improved feelings of racial equality much since Hansberry’s novel. Chicago still reflects a racist country and will continue to reflect that for many years to come.

Within the last five years multiple hate crimes have risen from within the United States. In Ferguson, Missouri a black teenager, Michael Brown was gunned down by an armed police man. Witnesses claimed that Brown was a few yards away from the police man before he was gunned down. In protest to the police brutality people revolted in violent riots all over Missouri and a majority of the south. However, people did protest in peace in South Carolina protestors sat in the streets and chanted ‘Black

I think that the author, Paul K. Chappell, really grabs the readers’ attention in the preface of the book by bringing to attention the injustices he and his family still faced even as late as 2014. He also talks about the injustices and racism that the people that we think of today as “white” people, faced because of where they were from and the religion they practiced.

I must admit that while reading chapters 35 – 38 of the Same Kind of Different as Me, stomach in knots, bells going on off in my mind, fingers clinched above the keyboard of my laptop, sitting on the proverbial edge of my seat, I needed a happy ending. I needed Denver to make it. I placed the dignity of all African Americans on Denver’s shoulders - the very act that irritates me when others are so bold to make unsuspecting individuals the savior of our race, e.g. Muhammad Ali, Oprah Winfrey, and Barack Obama to name a few. I am not minimalizing the hard truth that people of color have been mistreated to the point of hardly having a sense of self-worth. However, there comes a time when one must take responsibility for one’s own life and

I was the only African American student in AP English, so the entire novel landed on me. The narrator was an African American man who was invisible because of the color of his skin, and I totally agreed with him. Many of my classmates thought I was just talking, but as I began to explain how I could agree with the narrator because majority of the time my voice was not heard or simply overlooked because I was not one of them. They were mind blown. Living in a cold, cruel world really makes you hesitate who to trust, and after reading Invisible Man, Ellison allowed me to put myself in the narrator’s shoes by his use of symbols, lessons presented, and

The working conditions were very difficult, tiring, and dangerous but the workers were fine with that considering they were getting paid three times more than they were in the south. Female migrants also searched for work but found it much more of a challenge due to competition for domestic labor positions.

White Americans have discriminated against African Americans ever since the first white men—bringing with them their slaves—set foot in what would become the continental United States. America’s roots lie in imperialistic expansionism during which white men took advantage of those with a darker skin color whom they deemed unequal. The photograph of the devastating aftermath of the Detroit Race Riot of 1967 vividly captures the white Americans sense of dominance towards the disenfranchised African Americans. Though the photo lacks an easily identifiable original source, it has circulated around the internet and now serves as an epitome of the voiceless black American community’s stance in the wake of destruction against the rest of America; it signifies what is still known as “The Great Rebellion” in Detroit, as the black Americans expressed their rage against the failure of American institutions (Flock). The picture’s illustration of the rubble among the street, pillaged stores, and thick black clouds of smoke billowing into the sky conveys the ruins that not only Detroit suffered, but also African Americans across America. The graphic image depicts the inequality and oppression black Americans endured in the face of the unscrupulous, corrupt white American empire. Ultimately, the photo represents United States as an imperial country founded on racial hierarchy.