History of the United States II / Unit 8 USH2 1115 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Chicago, 1919
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The idea
In Chicago the riot began when a Black boy was stoned at a segregated beach, and violence spread across the city.
In practice
Twenty-three Black and fifteen White Chicagoans killed before the violence ended.
Where people slip
Unit nine's Claude McKay wrote his poem If We Must Die in response to the Red Summer.
Your place on the trail
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