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Remembering the ‘Red Summer,’ all these years later
1919 was plagued by race riots nationwide that had everlasting impact
Keith Dunlap, Digital Content Team, Graham Media Group
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A view of two young boys outside a home with broken windows and debris in the front yard, which had been vandalized during a race riot in Chicago, in the summer of 1919. The riot reportedly began following an incident at an informally segregated Chicago beach where a young Black boy drowned after a white man threw rocks at him resulting in a week-long riot with dozens of deaths and more than 1,000 left homeless. The events in Chicago were just one of a number of violent confrontations, grouped as the Red Summer events that occurred that year in the United States as a result of post-war economics, labor unrest, and racial tensions stoked by white supremacist groups. (Getty Images)