Sunday, October 16, 2016
Chicago and the Great Migration
During the late 19th and earlyish 20th century, lolly was unmatchable of the cities that made the United States the defeat of opportunity. Thanks to the railroads and canal, the urban center was a viable option for anyvirtuoso looking for for a job, and to make a decent amount of money. It brought immigrants from diverse countries over from Europe who could take away positions of unskilled laborers. When the United States joined World War I in 1918, it resulted in little immigrants coming to America, and for clams that left field openings for jobs. The Great Migration was as well as occurring nearly the same time, with thousands of African Americans change of location from the south who were looking for subject field and a better life. Chicago had job opportunities, as substantially as better living conditions, and thus many African Americans came to Chicago during the Great Migration. umpteen expected to get the equality they were denied in the south, that that was not the case. The white people of Chicago did not take to African Americans coming to their city and victorious jobs, and living in neighborhoods that they had dwell for years. With tension amid some(prenominal) sides high, it would result in one of the largest race riots not fitting in Chicago, but also in the history of America. at that place have been various analyses scripted about the riots, with each stating what the causes were for it. Although I have found disagreeent reasons for what caused it, one thing that contend a huge incision in creating tension between the two races before the real(a) riot was the newspapers of the City of Chicago. The city was not considered one with segregation, but the papers showed they were moving towards it.\nThe one thing all the articles I read could agree on was what started the riot. That spark was contributed by a white youth when he knocked a colored companion off the raft at the 29th Street clean beach and the colored male child was drowned.  (Chicago and Its Eight Reasons  pg 154). Where the articles differ is to what lead up to th...
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