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The Race Riots of 1919
Chicago and Washington Light Up

• Leslie's Weekly, 1919 •

On the right is a short report relaying an account of two racial uprisings that took place in 1919. The reporter was not at all alarmed that such events should have taken place in Southern locales like Washington, D.C. - but was surprised to hear of race riot in the Northern city of Chicago.

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