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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den Park aNegro playground director was assaulted by white boys and hit with brassknuckles in 1914, but now, according to a prominent Negro familiar with thesituation at the center, there is order and fair treatment both within the parkand on the way to it, and the Negroes prefer to travel out there than to goto Washington Park, which is closer at hand, but where they may be attackedif they try to use a boat or may be obliged to wait indefinitely for a tenniscourt. The use of the parks by Negroes is determined almost entirely by the degreeof antagonism in the neighborhood, and Negroes are afraid to make use ofthe parks where the neighborhood sentiment is hostile. The neighborhoodcondition pretty much governs the feeling of security, on the basis of whichthe Negro will come in and use our park facilities, said the representativeof the South Park Commission. Without feeling secure in his neighborhoodand in his access to the park, I dont think anything we could do would pullthe Negro in.
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RACIAL CONTACTS 293 At Mitchell Playground, in a district with a reputation for lawlessness,and at Seward Park, two blocks from a region known as Little Hell,,, noracial difficulty is reported. The two causes of neighborhood antagonism most commonly cited werethe real estate and the sex problems. Among visitors to Washington Parkthe real estate problem in the residence districts near the park seemed to bethe primary cause of ill feeling. One of the property owners in that regionshowed his feeling by complaining that the park ought to be rechristenedBooker T. Washington Park. The figures in Table I indicate that onlyabout 10 per cent of the patrons of the park are Negroes. An important point in considering neighborhood sentiment is whether thewhite hoodlum who appears to be mainly responsible for the clashes whichhave taken place is a cause of neighborhood antagonism or whether he merelyreflects the attitude of the community. The fact that the hoodlum is permittedto terrorize and mistr

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