The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 began on a hot July day and thought to be the worst of around 25 riots during the so-called ‘Red Summer’. Some ninety years later the New York Times called it the worst race riot in the history of Illinois. On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager called EugeneContinue reading “27 Amazing Photographs of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919”
