An article by NAACP executive secretary, Walter White, discusses the eight reasons he saw for the Chicago Race Riots in July, 1919. He goes into great detail to support these causes.

The KKK membership was on the rise in Detroit in the 20s. An angry mob gathers at the home of an African-American doctor and shots ring out from the upstairs. Investigate the trial through transcripts and eye witness accounts.

Read the text of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill as it was presented to the House of Representatives in 1922. Its passage was thwarted by a filibuster in the Senate.

Read the reporting from the Chicago Daily Tribune on the Chicago race riot in the summer of 1919. Find an accounting of the many incidents and a partial list of those injured.

Read a part of an article written by Carl Sandburg for the Chicago Daily News reporting on the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.

Find information about the race riots in Chicago in the summer of 1919. Read case details, causes of the riots, and photographs of the incidents.