On the afternoon of July 27, 1919, Eugene Williams, a black youth, drowned off the 29th Street beach. A stone throwing melee between blacks and whites on the beach prevented the boy from coming ashore safely. After clinging to a railroad tie for a lengthy period, he drowned when he no longer had the strength to hold on. This was the finding of the Cook County Coroner's Office after an inquest was held into the cause of death. William Tuttle, Jr.'s book, Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919,includes a 1969 interview with an eyewitness. This witness was one of the boys swimming and playing with Eugene Williams in Lake Michigan between 26th Street and the 29th Street Beach. He recalled having rocks thrown at them by a single white male standing on a breakwater 75 feet from their raft. Eugene was struck in the forehead and as his friend attempted to aid him, Eugene panicked and drowned. The man on the breakwater left, running toward the 29th Street Beach. By this time rioting had already erupted there precipitated by vocal and physical demonstrations against a group of blacks who wanted to use the beach in defiance of its tacit designation as a "white" beach. The rioting escalated when a white police officer refused to arrest the white man, by now identified as the perpetrator of the separate incident near 26th Street. Instead he arrested a black individual. Anger over this, coupled with rumors and innuendoes that spread in both camps regarding Eugene Williams death led to 5 days of rioting in Chicago that ultimately claimed the lives of 23 blacks and 15 whites, with 291 wounded and maimed. The Coroner's Office spent 70 day sessions and 20 night sessions on inquest work and in examining 450 witnesses. Those findings, reported in the Coroner's Report of 1919 are followed by his recommendations to deal with the festering social and economic conditions that were the underlying factors of the riots. www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/riots_race.html
On July 4th, 1910 Jack Johnson (the first black heavyweight champion of the world) defeated former Heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries (the great white hope) which sparked race riots that swept the nation. Jim Jeffries had come out of retirement to take the title back from Johnson who won it from Tommy burns just two years earlier. Jeffries was considered the last chance for white america to take back the Heavyweight title.
On May 10, 1919, two blacks were killed in race riots in Charleston, SC.
Inequality, and unjust treatment of minorities, are the root causes of the race riots that have occurred in the U.S.
racial violence and riots occured in cities all across america
In Watts, California (1965) but thats the only one.
The Greenwood or Tulsa Riot was on 31 May to 1 June 1921.
Kinmel Park Riots happened in 1919.
Airport Homes Race Riots happened in 1946.
1968
Overcrowded Neighborhoods
Red Flag Riots happened on 1919-03-24.
Elaine Race Riot happened in 1919.
It was a time of race riots. Chicago, Washington D.C. and Elaine, Arkansas had about 200 blacks killed.
On May 10, 1919, two blacks were killed in race riots in Charleston, SC.
The race riots of 1919 were mainly caused by economics. Whites were competing with returning black soldiers for jobs. The situation was not at all helped by Woodrow Wilson's comment that the soldiers were bringing back Bolshevism with them. After the communist revolution of 1917, America had become extremely paranoid about communism.
A Crack Up at the Race Riots was created in 1998.
A Crack Up at the Race Riots has 192 pages.
The race riots in Tampa were most prevalent in the late 1960s and early 1970s.