Chicago Race Riots: July, 1919

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Nearly a century ago, an African American teenager crossedan invisible line of segregation at a Chicago beach and paidwith his life. The incident set off days of violence, resultingin dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. This contemporaryaccount was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning authorCarl Sandburg, who reported on the riots for the ChicagoDaily News.Reprint of the Harcourt, Brace and Howe, Inc., 1919 edition.