Identifier: negroinchicagost00chic_0 (find matches)
Title: The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Chicago Commission on Race Relations
Subjects: African Americans Race riots
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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streets in order that colored people might get to their work. Hethinks this would be most unwise for, he states, They are armed and the whitepeople are not. We must defend ourselves if the city authorities wont protect us.Continuing his story, he describes bombs going off, I saw white men and womenrunning through the streets dragging children by the hands and carrying babies intheir arms. Frightened white men told me the police captains had just rushedthrough the district crying, For Gods sake, arm. They are coming, we cannothold them. The point here is not whether the alderman was correctly quoted, but theeffect on the public of such statements attributed to him. There is no recordin any of the riot testimony in the coroners office or in the states attorneysoffice of any bombs exploded during the riot, nor of police captains warningwhite people to arm, nor of any fear on the part of whites of a Negro invasion.In the Berger Odman case before the coroners jury there is a statement that
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