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1919

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Op-Ed: Chicago’s Second Red Summer

by Brady Chalmers September 2, 2020September 2, 2020

n 1918, an unarmed Black teenager visiting Chicago for the first time took a Sunday stroll on the South Side. He walked down Wentworth Avenue, which unbeknownst to him was the unofficial dividing line for Black Chicago and white Chicago. He was a high school student who, in his own words, “went out walking alone […]

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Witness to History

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Commemorating Chicago’s Red Summer of 1919

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