THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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at the stockyards
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at Northwestern University
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at the beach
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in the black neighborhoods
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Detailed explanation-1: -That afternoon, 17-year-old Eugene Williams was swimming at a public beach when he drifted across an invisible color line extending into Lake Michigan. White beachgoers began throwing stones at him, and Williams drowned. The event sparked a week of violent unrest across the city that reverberated for decades to come.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tensions escalated when a white police officer prevented a black police officer from arresting the white man responsible for Williams’ death, but arrested a black man instead. Objections by black observers were met with violence by whites. Attacks between white and black mobs erupted swiftly.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Black man named James Crawford, opened fire on a group of police officers. Crawford was immediately shot and killed, but the crowd did not disperse and other Black individuals began to attack whites. By nightfall, rumors of “race war” in white neighborhoods were running rampant, and the rioting began.