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Chicago's Violent Armistice
Jack, Homer A. | December 10, 1949 issue

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Chicago celebrated Armistice Day, 1949, with an anti-Negro, anti-Semitic riot. There may have been worse racial disorders here in the past decade, but none have disgusted Chicagoans so much or made them so resolved to take preventive action. The excitement started on November 8, when a union official invited some associates, including half a dozen Negroes, to his home for an evening meeting. This neighborhood has a militant organization to enforce residential segregation. Englewood residents soon gathered in front of the house of this union official and threatened him to send the Negroes home.

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ARMISTICE Day -- United States; AFRICAN Americans; RACE riots; DISCRIMINATION in housing; NEIGHBORHOODS; UNITED States
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