Today Marks the 100th Anniversary of a Sad Week in Chicago: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

I came across an article in the July 26, 2019, Chicago Sun-Times "Ride Reflects On City's Most Violent Week" by Maudline Ihejirika.

Today, July 27, marks the 100th anniversary of this sad event.  It was a violent racial incident provoked by Whites on Blacks in Chicago and last a week.  At the end of that time 38 people were dead (23 Black and 15 White) and 537 injured (2/3 Black) and 1,000 to 2,000  mostly Blacks lost their homes.

It is considered the worst of the 25 racial and labor riots that occurred  in the so-named "Red Summer"

It did not end until August 3, 1919.

There is only one marker telling of the events.

I will be writing more about this in the upcoming week.

There Should Definitely Be More Markers and Statues To the Event.