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Chicago Race Riots, July 1919

Public domain audiobook

Chicago Race Riots, July 1919

by Carl Sandburg

English· 02:15:30· 17 chapters
Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Introductory Note

    04:14
  2. Chapter 2

    The Chicago Race Riots

    07:21
  3. Chapter 3

    The Background

    08:15
  4. Chapter 4

    The Negro Migration

    07:11
  5. Chapter 5

    Real Estate

    06:41
  6. Chapter 6

    Demand for Negro Labor

    08:51
  7. Chapter 7

    New Industrial Opportunities

    07:29
  8. Chapter 8

    After Each Lynching

    09:40
  9. Chapter 9

    Trades for Colored Women

    13:18
  10. Chapter 10

    Negroes and Rising Rents

    11:24
  11. Chapter 11

    Unions and the Color Line

    12:53
  12. Chapter 12

    About Lynchings

    07:19
  13. Chapter 13

    Negro Crime Tales

    06:58
  14. Chapter 14

    Colored Gamblers

    08:13
  15. Chapter 15

    An Official of the Packers

    04:57
  16. Chapter 16

    Mr. Julius Rosenwald Interviewed

    05:15
  17. Chapter 17

    Federal Action

    05:31