Instructions
TASK ONE: Please watch the video carefully:
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (Links to an external site.)
TASK TWO: Please read the PDF carefully! (IGNORE THE LAST TWO SLIDES)
LYSK_ Chicago Race Riot.pdf download
TASK THREE: Please watch this video carefully!
Chicago Race Riots of 1919 (Links to an external site.)
Task four: Please read the documents carefully:
Documents Set 1.pdf
quote:
Since 1915 the colored population of Chicago has more than doubled, increasing in four years from a little over 50,000 to what is now estimated to be between 125,000 and 150,000. Most blacks lived in the area called the “Black Belt.” Already overcrowded, this so called “Black Belt” could not possibly hold the doubled colored population. One cannot put ten gallons of water in a five-gallon pail.Whites who are afraid that blacks will move out of the “Black Belt” and into “white” neighborhoods have formed the “Property Owners' Association” to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods.They discuss ways to keep Negroes in “their part of town.”In a number of cases during the period from January 1918 to August 1919, there were bombings of colored homes and houses occupied by Negroes outside of the “Black Belt.” During this period no less than twenty bombings took place, yet only two persons have been a
ested and neither of the two has been convicted.
Question 1: According to the above article how did Whites responded to the sudden increase of African Americans in their city?
Group of answer choices
They formed "Property Owner Associations" in an effort to block blacks from moving into white neighborhoods
Radicals resorted to indiscriminate bombing & te
orism against both White & Black Neighborhoods to instill fear.
They created "Black Belt neighborhoods" and fo
ade Blacks to leave the city of Chicago
They formed "Property Owner Associations" in an effort to block blacks & radicals resorted to a campaign of bombing & te
or against Blacks and their properties in White neighborhoods to instill fear.
Question 2
quote:
Since 1915 the colored population of Chicago has more than doubled, increasing in four years from a little over 50,000 to what is now estimated to be between 125,000 and 150,000. Most blacks lived in the area called the “Black Belt.” Already overcrowded, this so called “Black Belt” could not possibly hold the doubled colored population. One cannot put ten gallons of water in a five-gallon pail.Whites who are afraid that blacks will move out of the “Black Belt” and into “white” neighborhoods have formed the “Property Owners' Association” to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods.They discuss ways to keep Negroes in “their part of town.”In a number of cases during the period from January 1918 to August 1919, there were bombings of colored homes and houses occupied by Negroes outside of the “Black Belt.” During this period no less than twenty bombings took place, yet only two persons have been a
ested and neither of the two has been convicted.
Question 2: According to the above article what was the main cause of the Chicago Race Riots?
Group of answer choices
The great migration resulted in a huge influx of African American families to the city of Chicago. Whites feared that this increase would affect their neighborhoods and affect their jobs!
Housing & neighborhood segregation resulted in overcrowding and spillover into Black neighborhoods.
There were not enough housing in White neighborhoods in the city of Chicago to house all the African American migrants
Lack of housing and jobs for Whites made them fearful of wealthy Blacks! Thus te
orism and bombing ensued
Question 3
Since 1915 the colored population of Chicago has more than doubled, increasing in four years from a little over 50,000 to what is now estimated to be between 125,000 and 150,000. Most blacks lived in the area called the “Black Belt.” Already overcrowded, this so called “Black Belt” could not possibly hold the doubled colored population. One cannot put ten gallons of water in a five-gallon pail.Whites who are afraid that blacks will move out of the “Black Belt” and into “white” neighborhoods have formed the “Property Owners' Association” to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods.They discuss ways to keep Negroes in “their part of town.”In a number of cases during the period from January 1918 to August 1919, there were bombings of colored homes and houses occupied by Negroes outside of the “Black Belt.” During this period no less than twenty bombings took place, yet only two persons have been a
ested and neither of the two has been convicted.
Question 3: According to the above article, classwork and research what were the causes behind the massive increase of African American' in Northern Cities?
Group of answer choices
The great migration resulted in a huge influx of African American families only to the city of Chicago.
The great migration resulted in a huge influx of African American families desperately trying to escape Jim Crow laws in the South and search for economic opportunities in northern Cities.
There was no great migration.
World War One and the availability of Jobs in Chicago resulted in the increase of African American families.
*World War One: Million of American men are fighting in Europe since 1917
*America is desperate to produce enough “War Materials” to sustain itself and the
allies
*American industries in the North are in desperate need for skilled workers.
*They look for a reliable source of labor and find it in the South
*American industries and financiers encourage African Americans to leave the
South and move to Northern cities
*For the first time in American history African American men and women can earn
the same paycheck and overtime as White workers
Preludes to the Chicago Race riots
*Million of African Americans from the South journey
Northward
*Jim Crow laws / Southern segregation
*Rise of the KKK ( Five million members by 1920 )
*Lynching and intimidation increase coupled with bleak
economic prospects for Southern African American
families
*Better working conditions / educational opportunities
entice a mass migration out of the South and into
Industrial Northern Cities
*Affluent African American Communities establish themselves in
Northern Cities “The Harlem Renaissance”
The Great Migration / Connection to previous
learning
General causes of the Chicago Race Riots
*World War One ends in 1918 and millions of American soldiers return home to
find their jobs taken by African Americans
*Financiers and industrialists use desperate African American workers as a tool
to bust Unions of organized labo
*Race and prejudice
*Economic competition
* Political co
uption and exploitation of Negro Voters.
*Police inefficiency and KKK chapters established in Northern Cities
*Media lies and manipulation of crime caused by African Americans
*Housing
*Racist President (Woodrow Wilson / Birth of a Nation motion Picture)
Its “1919”
America is
not used to
this!
http:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u1QARlCph0
The Great Migration
POSITIVE OUTCOME:
Harlem Renaissance
Housing
Opportunities
NEGATIVE OUTCOME:
The Chicago Race Riots
Lynching
Violence
Overt Discrimination
Connection to previous
learning
W. E. B Du Boi Vs. Booker T Washington
Our Next Lesson
“ The Great Debate”
Objective: SWBAT evaluate the strongest
evidence from the provided documents to explain
economic, political, and social causes of the
Chicago Race Riots in order to come to a group
consensus to develop a hypothesis.
11/13/2019
Do Now
Do you think the Chicago Race Riots would have
happened even if the young man (Eugene
Williams) didn’t get murdered in Lake Michigan?
Why or why not?
Document A: History Book (ORIGINAL)
The most serious racial out
eak occu
ed in Chicago late in July of the so-called Red
Summer…. The riot that began on July 27 had its immediate origin in an altercation at Lake
Michigan beach. A young African American swimming offshore had drifted into water that was
customarily used by whites. White swimmers commanded him to return to his part of the beach,
and some threw stones at him. When the young man went down and drowned, blacks declared
that he had been murdered.... Distorted rumors circulated among blacks and whites concerning
the incident and the subsequent events at the beach. Mobs sprang up in various parts of the
city, and during the night there was sporadic fighting. In the next afternoon, white bystanders
meddled with blacks as they went home from work. Some were pulled off streetcars and
whipped....
On the South Side a group of young blacks sta
ed an old Italian peddler to death, and a
white laundry operator was also sta
ed to death.... When authorities counted the casualties,
the tally sheet gave the results of a miniature war. Thirty-eight people had been killed, including
15 whites and 23 blacks; of the 537 people injured, 178 were white and 342 were black. There
is no record of the racial identity of the remaining 17. More than 1,000 families, mostly black,
were homeless as a result of to the burnings and general destruction of property.
Source: John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, 1987,
(Sixth Edition; first published in 1947).
Chicago Race Riots
Document B (ORIGINAL)
Since 1915 the colored population of Chicago has more than doubled, increasing in four
years from a little over 50,000 to what is now estimated to be between 125,000 and 150,000.
Most of them lived in the area bounded by the railroad on the west, 30th Street on the north,
40th Street on the south and Ellis Avenue on east. Already overcrowded, this so-called "Black
Belt" could not possibly hold the doubled colored population. One cannot put ten gallons of
water in a five-gallon pail. Although many Negroes had been living in "white" neighborhoods, the
increased exodus from the old areas created an hysterical group of persons who formed
"Property Owners' Associations" for the purpose of keeping intact white neighborhoods.…
In a number of cases during the period from January, 1918, to August, 1919, there were
ombings of colored homes and houses occupied by Negroes outside of the "Black Belt."
During this period no less than twenty bombings took place, yet only two persons have been
a
ested and neither of the two has been convicted, both cases being continued.
Source: The document above was published in an African-American newspaper
in XXXXXXXXXXIts author was a leader of the NAACP, an organization devoted to
protecting African American rights.