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
Length34h 39m
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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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GenrePsychology
Length34 hrs 39 mins
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Publish dateMay 15, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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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