The Red Summer
"Between 27 July and 3 August 1919, violence erupted between black and white Chicagoans, leaving 38 people dead (23 of them black, 15 of them white) and 537 injured. Riots also broke out in other US cities and towns, causing the summer of 1919 to be known at the Red Summer – but few people today know it happened"
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A victim is stoned and bludgeoned under a corner of a house during the race riots in Chicago. The riots began after a black 17-year-old, Eugene Williams, accidentally
drifted into a white area while swimming in Lake Michigan. White youth gang members threw rocks at him – he drowned after one struck his head. Police
refused to arrest the white man eyewitnesses said had caused Williams’ death
Photograph: Stephen Jensen/AP