The+Red+Summer-AMD

= The Red Summer in Chicago = The red summer consisted of twenty five racial riots across the nation. Some of the worst violence occurred in Chicago. It started when a group of African Americans went to a whites-only beach. Both sides threw stones at one another, though full scale riots in the city continued after the beach incident because a group of white people would not let an African American teenage boy come out of the water and up onto the beach. They threw stones at him and he drowned. The riots in Chicago lasted two weeks and eventually, the National Guard was sent to impose order. The riots in 1919 differed from many that had come before. The main difference was that African Americans were organized and that they fought back against white mobs. Many African Americans fought for political rights and joined the NAACP, which is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.