The Chicago 1919 Race Riot-- Part 3: Bronzeville, Bridgeport and Back of the Yards

Recently about 150 bicyclists took a journey through this event's history, starting at the Lake Michigan shore front at 29th Street, the site of the only marker of the event.  They then went through sites in Chicago neighborhoods now called Bronzeville, Bridgeport and Back of the Yards.

This was "The Chicago 1919 Bike Tour: Visualizing the 1919 Riots in Today's Chicago."  It is part of "Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots" which is a year-long initiative.

The Chicago Sun-Times first learned about this in March and interviewed  107-year-old Juanita Mitchell who now lives in south suburban Chicago, but in 1919 lived in the affected areas as an eight-year-old and remembers how women and children hid in her home as the men stood guard by the window.