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=__ World War One! __=

When the troops went to fight the war, a large number of African Americans went to the factories of Chicago for work. people started to get laid off from their jobs, work and affordable housing was hard to find for the soldiers when they returned from the war and this made them all angry. They blamed African Americans for their frustration and for taking their jobs. The combination of racism and frustration produced violence.

25 race riots broke on in the summer of 1919, this was know as the "red summer" because of all the blood that was spilled. a group of african americans went to a white only beach thy started throwing rocks at each other, the white people made a black teenager drown after throwing rocks at him as he was swimming keeping him from coming ashore. Black neighborhoods attacked white neighborhoods, and vice versa this went on for about two weeks before the government had to call in national guard troops to regain order.