Chicago 1919

Chicago 1919

Socialist countries beat back COVID-19

November 24, 2020 Scott Scheffer
Nov. 22 — Another wave of COVID-19 is raging across the U.S. The death count has now reached a quarter-million; Black, Brown and Indigenous communities have suffered the heaviest toll.  After actively discouraging all recommended […]
Chicago 1919

A city of struggle

November 19, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 8 The sudden death of Harold Washington in 1987 was a godsend to Chicago’s power structure. Most of Washington’s supporters wanted Alderman Timothy Evans to be […]
Chicago 1919

The people put Harold Washington in City Hall

November 9, 2019 Stephen Millies
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 7 By 1970, people of color were already close to half of Chicago’s population. The Daley machine — which still had white ward bosses on the […]
Chicago 1919

Never forget Fred Hampton

November 5, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 6 By 1960, Chicago’s Black community reached 813,000 people, nearly a quarter of the city’s total population. The Great Migration of African Americans continued until the […]
Chicago 1919

Chicago Mayor Daley’s racist machine

November 3, 2019 Stephen Millies
Mayor Richard Daley stands at the microphone during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 5 In the spring of 1937 the Congress of Industrial Organizations—the […]
Chicago 1919

Communists fight racism and evictions

October 25, 2019 Stephen Millies
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 4 Despite the race riot and segregated housing, Chicago’s Black population more than doubled in the 1920s and reached 233,903 by 1930. Even in 1940, during […]
Chicago 1919

What did the unions do?

October 16, 2019 Stephen Millies
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 3 Up to the 1920s, Chicago was the center of the labor movement in the United States. It was the heart and soul of the eight-hour-day […]
Chicago 1919

Bombings greet the Great Migration

October 11, 2019 Stephen Millies
A fundamental change in the composition of the U.S. workforce was the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities. With the outbreak of World War I, factory owners lost Eastern and […]
Chicago 1919

The long shadow of the 1919 Chicago race riot

October 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
First in a series A century ago, Chicago was convulsed by anti-Black riots. For days, African Americans were beaten and killed in a city whose first non-Indigenous resident was the Black man Jean Baptiste Point […]
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The long shadow of the 1919 Chicago race riot

March 24, 2019 Stephen Millies
The Struggle – La Lucha Series by Stephen Millies The following articles are included: • Bombings greet the Great Migration • What did the unions do? • Communists fight racism and evictions • Chicago Mayor […]