Racism Of Chicago : The 1950 ' S

What is racism? Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially to categorize it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Racism has changed a lot over the last century.

Urban Blacks were also encounter with extreme racial violence in neighborhoods and at work. Different ethnic groups of new immigrants obtained power and used conflict as a strategy of diminishing urban Blacks power level. They began blocking Urban Black workers going to work throughout new immigrant’s neighborhoods. Race riots have played a crucial role in the social establishment of race, prejudice, and discrimination across the United States. Race riots uncovered fundamental tensions in societies experiencing swift technological and economic changes. In 1920, there were many race riots and other violence in many places, such as Red Summer Race Riots of 1919 and the St. Louis Riot of 1917 that took place during the segregation in the South and the Black urban migration to the North. These race riots were response to the reality that Urban Blacks were carrying on a powerful struggle against White supremacy. During race riots, Urban Blacks lived through a renewed flow of riots, massacres, and racial terrorism.

In this paper I will discuss what forms of oppression there are in Chicago. Next, what cause or drive oppression. Third, how oppression affects clients. Fourth, how the United States’ cultural structure encourages or discourages privilege and /or disadvantage. Fifth, why privilege or discrimination continues. Last, what are effective strategies that oppressed groups can use to take back power?

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.

First of all, “A Raisin in the Sun” of Lorraine Hansberry, took place in Chicago. Walter Younger Jr. fought against the demons of poverty and racial/social injustice that plagued his father and now

The novel A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is about an African American family on the southside of Chicago,that struggles through poverty. Soon after buying a new house, a white man, Mr. Lindner comes to their door offering to give them their money back in exchange for them not to move in. Hansberry uses Mr. Lindner to represent society, because he singles out the Younger family because of their race and that they are from a different background than those from Clybourne Park. This is reflective of society, because people mask their misguided beliefs behind the supposed best interests of others.

The 1930’s started off with a huge economic crash which left the U.S. startled and in the Great Depression. The stock market had just crashed on October 24, 1929, also known as the Wall Street Crash. The “Jazz Age” had just ended and new musicians and artists were slowly rising up to their fame. African American’s were being discriminated against in the south. Many African Americans were farmers who had to suffer from the Great Depression as well as the Dust Bowl. As a result of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl many African Americans had to go through the struggles of losing their jobs and having to move north in search for a new life. Many Americans had this problem as well, but the racism that was used against Africans, added to the severeness of the situation. African Americans weren’t able to get jobs, homes, or opportunities as easily as African Americans. Many African Americans were in terrible condition and most of it was because of the way that African Americans were treated. After President Roosevelt was elected a new hope had arisen through the country and Africans Americans were given another chance.

Through Mr. Lindner’s visit to the Younger’s family, A Raisin in the Sun demonstrates racially segregated nature of Chicago’s neighborhood, and how the Younger family suffered emotional trauma in their everyday life due to their race in the form of stress they had to experience due to the non-violent tactics used by the people to racially segregate them from other people in the community, further leading them to have lesser options to improve their status.

When driving through any state in America, it is hard not to notice the segregation that often establishes itself throughout the neighborhoods; there exists a clear distinction what streets are predominantly populated by White, Black, Hispanic, Arab, or other racial groups. According to recent analysis of the U.S. Census Data, “Chicago is the most diverse city, as well as the most segregated” (chicago.cbslocal.com). This raises the question of whether or not Chicago has also joined the bandwagon of so many cities across the United States where it has become an accepted social circumstance that every ethnic, racial, political, or religious group in a community must stand alone to overcome their own struggles and “fight their own battles”. Chicago is a city that defies the pattern of separation in activism. Chicago has become the symbol not

Racial segregation has had a long history in Chicago. While separation by nationality had always been apparent in the city, with neighborhoods typically being dominated by a certain ethnicity, no group of Chicagoans experienced the degree of segregation that African Americans faced in everything from the housing districts to public services. Forced to live only in designated areas by de facto segregation, redlining, and other tactics, they had limited chances to escape the cycle of danger and discrimination of the city. Confined to only their deteriorating neighborhoods,they had little chance.

Fifty years past after the Chicago Freedom Movement, and much has changed in Chicago. In 1966, a far southwest side neighborhood was 99.9 percent whites is now split between African-Americans, Hispanics, and with a few whites. African-Americans have come to hold positions of power throughout the world including the highest office in land. However, a lot has stayed the same too. Chicago is still one of America’s most segregated cities. The problems from the Chicago Freedom Movement have even gotten worse: gun violence, no jobs, and economic problems, and struggling schools. However, it is obvious that much has changed over the last fifty years. Now, everyone can drink from the same water fountain, no one has to sit at

The SNCC of Chicago was a movement that was fighting for civil right which they called “Black Power.” However, some of their doctrine that were nonviolence seemed self-defeating and dangerous. The movement would be led by a black man in the ghetto because he has advantage that most of them didn’t; he has learned to survive on his own, he has training in the streets and jail therefore he is ready for anything that he has to face. “This is why the Black Power Movement is a true revolutionary movement with the power to change men’s mind and unmask the tricks the white man has used to keep black men enslaved in modern society.” Malcom X taught them how to embrace their culture and take pride from where they come from They had to learn how to become

A Raisin in the Sun ,by Lorraine Hansberry; the reason why the author wrote the story was to show people how African American people had to live in Chicago during the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. The motive of writing this paper was to find out what each character's dream was throughout the whole story. During society back then was not good for African Americans because racism and prejudice were very big during that time. The American dream is the dreams between the four main characters of the story it talks about how it gets paced down from generation to generation.

Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' showed the different ideas that African American families had during the Civil Rights era. Hansberry used each member of the Younger family was to portray the

For my symposium topic I will be discussing racism and bigotry in the 1940-1960s through literature, versus today. When you read books from 60-80 years ago, you expect to see a lot of differences in terms of the unequal treatment that black people had endured, however it’s not over, and in so many cases, they are still enduring it. Looking at it from a political standpoint, it feels almost as if we are going back in time and that all of the progress we had once made is deteriorating. My working thesis: While the world has vastly changed and evolved, looking at literature from 1940-1960s and comparing it to our present day culture demonstrates that racism and bigotry are unfortunately still very prevalent in our society. My main book sources