Some RARE photos of the Chicago 1919 Race Riots

[cole phelps]

White Employees of the Chicago Stock Yards jeering at African Americans as they quit work and hurry to their homes


Taking away some rioting African Americans away in patrol wagons


An African American Man fleeing to escape the mob

Badly injured African American man having his wounds attended to by Doctor in Police Station


horde of young boys run to the corner where a young black man was being beaten during Chicago's race riots of 1919. White youngsters drove out African-American residents by stoning their homes during the race riots



Police remove the body of a black man killed during the 1919 race riots. The five days of violence were sparked when a black teenager crossed an invisible boundary between the waters of the 29th Street beach, known to be reserved for whites, and the 25th Street beach, known to be reserved for blacks



A man armed with a machine gun sits at the Cook County Jail After a brawl between Blacks broke out of their segregated pens and brawled with security during the 1919 Chicago race riots

 

[Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw]

White people are the devil that man who's getting stitched up at the police station looks like a wax figure smh

 

[cole phelps]

A black man is searched by Chicago Police in front of a crowd at an unidentified spot

Crowds gather at 36th and State Streets, the center of the riot area





The state run militia patrols the streets of Chicago


Troops gather at 47th Street and Wentworth Avenue



A soldier tells a man to "back up" during the race riots in Chicago in 1919. The soldiers were in place to keep white people in their own district

 

[KidJSoul]

It's good that pics are coming out

Too bad no one will care enough

 

[cole phelps]

A police officer stands in front of Burke's Lunch Room in the heart of Chicago's business district. A black man was dragged out through a window and beaten to death on the sidewalk in front of the lunch room during the race riots of 1919. The hole in the window is covered up with a board. Photo dated July 30, 1919

 

[richaveli83]

 

[At30wecashout]

shyt is fukked. I honestly wish I had the ability to go back in time see these and other things. Photos and video only scratch the surface of how our people lived.

 

[skeetsinternal]

the USA brehs

 

[Dushane Hill]

It's good that pics are coming out

Too bad no one will care enough

Coli nikkas only care about IG thots and TMZ gossip

 

[call_me_step_daddy]

38 people died (23 African American and 15 white)

at least we was laying they ass down too

 

[cole phelps]

38 people died (23 African American and 15 white)

at least we was laying they ass down too

true brothas weren't playing no more

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

The courage it took to stand up against those evil cacs

 

[Yehuda]

true brothas weren't playing no more

Was it in D.C. where cacs tried to start shyt and Black folks whipped their ass? I think it happened during this time period.

 

[cole phelps]

Was it in D.C. where cacs tried to start shyt and Black folks whipped their ass? I think it happened during this time period.

heres the thread on it
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-...er-knew-about-update-some-footage-found.19089

 

[FlexPavilion]

They were so angry that blacks were migrating from the south taking away "their" jobs.