The 1943 Detroit race riot was one of the biggest racial conflicts that occurred in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century, and it was primarily caused by deep-seated systemic racism and unequal housing and job opportunities in wartime Detroit. Shortly after the turn of the century, Detroit experienced a significant population […]
Project Topics: Crisis and Response
The Rise and Fall of the Knights of Labor in Chicago
A brief chronicling of the life of a gilded age social movement in Chicago
Underlying Tensions: The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 and the Chicago Commission on Race Relations
The Chicago Commission on Race Relations released a study in 1922 called The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot trying to figure out what the reason behind the Chicago Race Riot 1919. The Commission came to the conclusion that the riots were based on three things: housing, labor conflict, and racial issues.
Factors Behind the Chicago Race Riots of 1919
This project looks at the major contributing factors that led up to the Chicago Race Riots during the “Red Summer” of 1919.
Forged By Fire – Chicago’s Industrial Growth Following the Great Fire
Since the year 1871, the city of Chicago has never been the same. The fire that shook the entire world ushered Chicago into a new era. Due to the city’s detailed face-lift in architecture and new industrial perspective, Chicago rose above the ashes to take its position in the United States as the golden […]
H.H. Holmes and Chicago
Why did H.H. Holmes, America’s first attributed serial killer, choose Chicago?
