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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rican flag by a group of self-styled Abyssinians at 35th St.and Indiana Avenue last Sunday evening, as a means of showing their contemptfor the United States, and the resultant murders that followed in the wake of thisdemonstration, instead of accomplishing the end desired by these malcontents, actedas a boomerang. Every black face portrayed indignation. Every black arm waslifted to strike a blow at these law-breakers. This is our home, our country, our flag,for whose honor and protection we will give our last drop of blood. With all ourshortcomings it can never truthfully be said that we are disloyal or unpatriotic. The real problem indicated by the Abyssinian affair is how to preventself-seekers from playing upon the superstitions and emotions of ignorantNegroes, to the harm of others and the disturbance of the peace. 4. THE BARRETT MURDER The murder of a white man, Thomas J. Barrett, by a Negro on September20, 1920, is not particularly significant in itself. But it was committed in
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OTHER OUTBREAKS IN ILLINOIS 65 the heart of the district where some of the worst rioting took place in 1919,it created a situation which might easily have developed into another seriousriot, and it affords an example of prompt and effective police handling. Forty-seventh and Halsted streets is the intersection of two main thorough-fares used by Negroes returning home from work in the Stock Yards. Theneighborhood is one where gangs of hoodlums have attacked Negroes, and isthickly settled with people who have shown considerable antagonism towardNegroes. Barrett, who was a motorman on the Chicago surface lines, was killedshortly after seven oclock in the evening. He had had his shoes shined atthe stand of William Sianis, 4720 South Halsted Street, and had purchaseda newspaper at Halsted and Forty-seventh streets at about 7:00 p.m. Aboutthe same time three Negroes came out of the yards of Ready & Callaghanon Halsted Street between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh, and one of theseNegroes

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