Race riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919

College text -- very disappointing. One needs objectivity, to fully understand what is happening. The author,uses copious footnotes but then will simply make a statement which he wishes for us to take at face value, without basis of fact. ie "The white populace had long been inimical to the striving of black people, and during World
War I this hostility became markedly more intense as over 450, 000 Southern Blacks migrated to the North."
The author makes no mention on the stigmatization of whites versus the Eastern Europeans, the fact that the unemployment rate had jumped from 2% to 5% in less than one year, that 100's of thousands of veterans joined the labor force or that the labor market was in the midst of a rapid change from show more agricultural to industrial. None of these things get mentioned. I felt that the book set out to prove only one thing - That the blacks, yet again, got the short end of the stick thru no fault of their own. I had hoped for much better show less

Studies in American Negro life (August Meier, General editor)