Chicago, Illinois.
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The 1919 Chicago Race Riot, part of what is known as the Red Summer, erupted on July 27th after a Black youth, Eugene Williams, was killed by a white man for swimming in a part of Lake Michigan unofficially reserved for . . .
(Arts, Letters, Music • Civil Rights • Disasters • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The 1919 Chicago Race Riot, part of what is known as the Red Summer, erupted on July 27th after a Black youth, Eugene Williams, was killed by a white man for swimming in a part of Lake Michigan unofficially reserved for . . . (Arts, Letters, Music • Civil Rights • Disasters • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.