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Introduction
The Chicago 1919 Race Riots precipitated the most violent week in Chicago's history. Eugene Williams, an African American teenager, was stoned by a white man and eventually drowned after his raft floated over an invisible color line on a South Side beach. The police refused to arrest the white perpetrator, and the city erupted in racially-motivated violence, arson, and looting, resulting in thirty-eight deaths (23 black, 15 white) until the National Guard was called to restore order. The riots inflicted lasting scars on the city, still visible in the lines of segregation throughout the city’s built environment, its schools, and its selective policing.
Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots is a series of 11 "community conversations" at venues across Chicago during 2019. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and developed by 13 Chicago institutions, the community conversations will remember the searing events of 1919 and offer the opportunity to help Chicagoans wrestle with this past and its relevance to our present.
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