The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919

by Carl SANDBURG (1878 - 1967)

The Chicago Race Riots

The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919

Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS


Listen next episodes of The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919:
About Lynchings , After Each Lynching , An Official of the Packers , Colored Gamblers , Demand for Negro Labor , Federal Action , Mr. Julius Rosenwald Interviewed , Negro Crime Tales , Negroes and Rising Rents , New Industrial Opportunities , Real Estate , The Background , The Negro Migration , Trades for Colored Women , Unions and the Color Line