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History > USA > Civil rights > Chicago riots 1919
White children cheer outside an African-American residence that they have set on fire.
The police arrived soon afterward.
Anglonautes' note > Photograph: Jun Fujita
Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive
The Red Summer: Chicago's race riots remembered 100 years on – in pictures G Sat 27 Jul 2019 10.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/jul/27/
A crowd gathers at a house that has been vandalised and looted
Photograph: Chicago History Museum/AP
The Red Summer: Chicago's race riots remembered 100 years on – in pictures G Sat 27 Jul 2019 10.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/jul/27/
African American neighborhood, on Chicago’s South Side, destroyed by fire during the riot.
The neighbourhood was located near the stockyards and meatpacking plants where African Americans and new European immigrants worked.
Tensions had been growing with the Great Migration of black people from the Southern States.
Photograph: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo
The Red Summer: Chicago's race riots remembered 100 years on – in pictures G Sat 27 Jul 2019 10.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/jul/27/
A police officer provides protection to a black resident moving house on the South Side of Chicago shortly after the riots
Photograph: Bettmann/Getty Images
The Red Summer: Chicago's race riots remembered 100 years on – in pictures G Sat 27 Jul 2019 10.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/jul/27/
Mounted police escorting African Americans to a safety zone
Photograph: Bettmann/Getty Images
The Red Summer: Chicago's race riots remembered 100 years on – in pictures G Sat 27 Jul 2019 10.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/jul/27/
Armed National Guards - called in by Mayor ‘Big Bill’ Thompson after three days of rioting - question an African American man.
Anglonautes' note > Photograph: Jun Fujita
The Red Summer: Chicago's race riots remembered 100 years on – in pictures G Sat 27 Jul 2019 10.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/jul/27/
Red Summer
Chicago's race riots remembered 100 years on – in pictures
Between 27 July and 3 August 1919, violence eruptedbetween 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
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/jul/27/
The infamous 1919 Chicago race riot, which lasted seven days and claimed 38 lives, began on the shores of Lake Michigan, when white youth gang members stoned to death a black teenager named Eugene Williams after he had accidentally drifted across a color line in the water.
In its aftermath, African Americans learned to avoid the city’s lakefront.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/07/27/
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/jul/27/
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/745743507/
https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/07/26/
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https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/07/19/
https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/07/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/
Jun Fujita (Japanese: 藤田 準之助 USA 1888-1963
Jun Fujita was a Japanese immigrant who became a pioneering photojournalis and poet in Chicago during the first half of the 1900s.
Fujita was not only a witness to momentous events in Chicago’s history; his photographs of these news events shaped the way they were recorded.
He used photography to humanize inhumanity and to make legendary figures more life-sized.
Despite his ethnic background and limited English, Fujita became a celebrated, somewhat swashbuckling member of the staunchly segregated city’s society, counting everyone from Carl Sandburg to Al Capone as friends.
Yet he had to fight to avoid being sent to an internment camp during World War II, and he and his white wife refused to have children, fearing the prejudice biracial children faced.
His story opens a window into many of the political, social, and cultural struggles of the country at that time.
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He was also an acclaimed poet with ties to Harriet Monroe of Chicago’s Poetry magazine.
In the 1920s, he authored the highly regarded Tanka: Poems in Exile, considered to be the first American collection of Japanese tanka poetry. https://hatandbeard.com/products/fujita-behind-the-camera
Disasters, riots, gangsters and construction … early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita.
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