The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot

Contacts of whites and Negroes in the North and South differ according to the institutions and traditions of the sections in which they have been reared. In the South relations...

The Negro in the United States: "A person of African blood (much or little) about whom men of English descent tell only half the truth, and because of whom they do not act with...

Consideration of the housing problem as a continuing factor in the experience of Negro families led to an effort to study it from a new angle of approach--through histories of t...

Between 1910 and 1920 the Negro population of Chicago increased from 44,103 to 109,594. Of this number it is estimated that about 70,000 were engaged in industries in 1920 as co...

In July, 1919, a race riot involving whites and Negroes occurred in Chicago. For some time thoughtful citizens, white and Negro, had sensed increasing tension, but, having no lo...

We cannot escape the conclusion that the press is the most powerful institution in this country. It can make men, it can destroy men. It can conduct crusades; it can put an end...

Thirty-eight persons killed, 537 injured, and about 1,000 rendered homeless and destitute was the casualty list of the race riot which broke out in Chicago on July 27, 1919, and...

The Negro population of Chicago, as reported by the Federal Bureau of the Census, was 44,103 in 1910 and 109,594 in 1920. The increase during the decade was therefore 65,491, or...

The crime rate of Negroes is so largely controlled by a tangle of predisposing circumstances that it is hardly possible to isolate and measure its factors. The most important el...

During the period 1916-18 approximately a half-million Negroes suddenly moved from southern to northern states. This movement, however, was not without a precedent. A similar mi...

The race riot of 1919 in Chicago was preceded by a long series of more or less serious clashes between whites and Negroes. Some of these are discussed in the section of this rep...

The Chicago Riot 595 The Migration of Negroes from the South 602 The Negro Population of Chicago 605 Racial Contacts 613 Crime and Vicious Environment 621 The Negro in Chicago I...

Employment Opportunities and Conditions 357 Increase in Negro Labor since 1915 362 Classification of Negro Workers 364 Wages of Negro Workers 365 Women Employees in Industrial E...

Beliefs Concerning Negroes 437 Primary Beliefs 438 Secondary Beliefs 443 Background of Prevailing Beliefs Concerning Negroes 445 Types of Sentiments and Attitudes 451 The Emotio...

General Living Conditions 152 Why Negroes Move 154 Room Crowding 156 Rents and Lodgers 162 How Negro Families Live 165 A Group of Family Histories 170 Physical Aspects of Negro...

Background of the Riot 2 The Beginning of the Riot 4 Chronological Story of the Riot 5 Factors Influencing Growth of the Riot 9 Gangs and "Athletic Clubs" 11 Types of Clashes 17...

Legal Status of Negroes in Illinois 232 Discrimination in Public Schools 234 Contacts in Chicago Public Schools 238 Physical Equipment of Schools 241 Retardation in Elementary S...

Distribution and Density 106 Neighborhoods of Negro Residence 108 Adjusted Neighborhoods 108 Non-adjusted Neighborhoods 113 Neighborhoods of Organized Opposition 115 Bombings 12...

Clashes in Chicago preceding the Riot of 1919 53 Racial Outbreaks in Waukegan, May 31 and June 2, 1920 57 The "Abyssinian" Affair, June 20, 1920 59 The Barrett Murder, September...

The Press 520 General Survey of Chicago Newspapers 523 Intensive Study of Chicago Newspapers 531 Newspaper Policy Regarding Negro News 547 The Negro Press 556 Classification of...

Economic Causes of the Migration 80 Sentimental Causes of the Migration 84 Beginning and Spread of Migration 86 The Arrival in Chicago 93 Adjustments to Chicago Life 94 Migrants...

Criminal Statistics 328 The Negro in the Courts 332 Bureau of Identification 335 Probation and Parole 335 Institutional Inquiry 338 Negro Crime and Environment 341 Views of Auth...