WALTER LIPPMAN.
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ONTENTS CHAPTERI.—The Chicago Race Riots1].—The BackgroundIl1I].—The Negro MigrationIV.—Real Estate . eraseV.—Demand for Negro Labor .VI.—New Industrial Opportunities .VII.—After Each Lynching PiastVill.—-Trades for Colored Women . « (4))5) 6 sMeiaaee[X.—Neeroes and Rising Rents... - Aj) ltyy inte 38x Unions and! the:-Color Line. . 2 Vee aeMl About Lynehings’. - 3. 5s) = ae eeMt —Nesro Crime Vales «8s Sens eeeMIli.——Colored’ Gamblers... sso) so ep we)XIV.—An Official of the Packers . . EE «2XV.—Mr. Julius Rosenwald Interviewed. . - «+ > 66 naMeg tee Pedeial Action 0.0). el os eee a om | ITHE CHICAGO RACE RIOTS THE so-called race riots in Chicago during the lastweek of July, 1919, started on a Sunday at a bathingbeach. A colored boy swam across an imaginary segre-gation line. White boys threw rocks at him and knockedhim off a raft. He was drowned. Colored people rushedto a policeman and asked for the arrest of the boys throw-ing stones. The policeman refused. As the dead bodyof the drowned boy was being handled, more rocks werethrown, on both sides. ‘The policeman held on to hisrefusal to make arrests. Fighting then began that spreadto all the borders of the Black Belt. The score at theend of three days was recorded as twenty negroes dead,fourteen white men dead, and a number of negro housesburned. The riots furnished an excuse for every element ofGangland to go to it and test their prowess by the mostancient ordeals of the jungle. There was one section ofthe city that supplied more white hoodlums than anyother section. It was the district around the stockyardsand packing houses. I asked Maclay Hoyne, states attorney of CookCounty, “Does it seem to you that you get more toughbirds from out around the stockyards than anywhere elsein Chicago?” And he answered that more bank robbers,payroll bandits, automobile bandits, highwaymen andstrong-arm crooks come from this particular district than I
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