Events/Actions/Perspectives

Citizens of this time period took action towards the conflicts of discrimination. The president during this time period, William Howard Taft, did not have the acts of fixing discrimination in his best interest. This meant that it was up to the citizens and groups of protesters. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and the National Urban League were both associations formed by people reaching out and helping people of color with equality and quality of life dealing with jobs and occupations. 

The government was not acting responsibly towards this issue at this time.

"Early in its fight for equality, the NAACP used the federal courts to challenge disenfranchisement and residential segregation. Job opportunities were the primary focus of the National Urban League, which was established in 1910” (Library of Congress).

This riot that took place was in Chicago in the year of 1919. Many people were harmed during this riot, looking back in the quote, many harmless people. 

"Though records vary, the final Chicago casualty count listed 38 fatalities (23 Black, 15 White), 537 injured and upwards of 1,000 Black families made homeless by the burning and rampant destruction of African American neighborhoods" ("The Race Riots of 1919"). 

Paul Hardwick, an African American businessman in Chicago, did not know about the riot and was still beaten to death. That’s how brutal these riots were.

” Paul Hardwick, a reliable, harmless, reputable man of advanced age was overtaken while on his way to work in the loop district and was stabbed and beaten to death. He did not know there was a riot on against his people, as he lived very far out from the loop” (“The Grenada Sentinel”).