The Negro in Chicago

A Social Survey of Black Urban Life, Residential Segregation, Labor Conflict, and the 1919 Race RiotBy Chicago Commission on Race Relations

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The Negro in Chicago is a landmark sociological investigation of race relations published in the aftermath of the city's devastating 1919 race riot. Combining statistical evidence, firsthand testimony, institutional records, and social analysis, the volume examines African American migration, housing segregation, employment, education, health, crime, recreation, politics, and interracial organizations. Its prose is documentary and reformist rather than literary in the conventional sense, yet its accumulation of testimony gives the work a compelling human dimension. Situated within the Progressive Era tradition of urban surveys and social-scientific reform, it seeks not merely to describe racial conflict but to identify the structural conditions that produced it and the practical measures that might alleviate it. The Chicago Commission on Race Relations was an interracial body created in response to the 1919 violence, when Chicago's rapidly expanding Black population encountered entrenched discrimination, restrictive housing practices, labor competition, and vigilante hostility. Its members brought together civic leaders, social investigators, and representatives of both Black and white communities. Their inquiry reflects the period's faith in empirical research as a means of informing public policy, while also recording the urgent demands for justice voiced by African American Chicagoans during the Great Migration. This book is essential reading for students of African American history, urban studies, sociology, public policy, and the history of race in the United States. It remains valuable both as a foundational study of Chicago's racial order and as an important document of the struggle to translate social knowledge into meaningful reform.

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Publish dateMay 15, 2020

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1THE BEHAVIOR OF CROWDS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY (Annotated)

2FOREWORD

3INTRODUCTION

4THE PROBLEM

5CHAPTER I THE CHICAGO RIOT July 27-August 2, 1919 (pt. 1)

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6CHAPTER I THE CHICAGO RIOT July 27-August 2, 1919 (pt. 2)

7CHAPTER II OTHER OUTBREAKS IN ILLINOIS

8I. Minor Clashes in and near Chicago

9II. The Springfield Riot August 14–15, 1908

10III. East St. Louis Riots May 28 and July 2, 1917

11CHAPTER III THE MIGRATION OF NEGROES FROM THE SOUTH

12I. ECONOMIC CAUSES OF THE MIGRATION

13II. SENTIMENTAL CAUSES OF THE MIGRATION

14III. BEGINNING AND SPREAD OF MIGRATION

15IV. THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO

16V. ADJUSTMENTS TO CHICAGO LIFE

17VI. MIGRANTS IN CHICAGO

18VII. EFFORTS TO CHECK MIGRATION

19CHAPTER IV THE NEGRO POPULATION OF CHICAGO

20A. DISTRIBUTION AND DENSITY

21B. NEIGHBORHOODS OF NEGRO RESIDENCE

22C. THE NEGRO COMMUNITY

23CHAPTER V THE NEGRO HOUSING PROBLEM

24A. A STUDY OF NEGRO FAMILIES

25B. PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF NEGRO HOUSING

26C. NEGROES AND PROPERTY DEPRECIATION

27D. FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF NEGRO HOUSING

28CHAPTER VI RACIAL CONTACTS

29INTRODUCTION

30A. LEGAL STATUS OF NEGROES IN ILLINOIS

31B. CONTACTS IN CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

32C. CONTACTS IN RECREATION

33D. CONTACTS IN TRANSPORTATION

34E. CONTACTS IN OTHER RELATIONS

35CHAPTER VII CRIME AND VICIOUS ENVIRONMENT

36I. GENERAL CRIME SITUATION

37II. PREVALENT IMPRESSIONS REGARDING NEGRO CRIME

38III. CRIMINAL STATISTICS

39IV. THE NEGRO IN THE COURTS

40V. NEGRO CRIME AND ENVIRONMENT

41VI. VIEWS OF AUTHORITIES ON CRIME AMONG NEGROES

42CHAPTER VIII THE NEGRO IN INDUSTRY

43A. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND CONDITIONS

44B. ORGANIZED LABOR AND THE NEGRO WORKER

45CHAPTER IX PUBLIC OPINION IN RACE RELATIONS: A. OPINIONS OF WHITES AND NEGROES

467. ATTITUDES DETERMINED BY CONTACTS

474. RACE CONSCIOUSNESS

48CHAPTER X PUBLIC OPINION IN RACE RELATIONS—Continued B. INSTRUMENTS OF OPINION MAKING

49I. THE PRESS

50II. RUMOR

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