"A CROWD OF HOWLING NEGROES":
THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE REPORTS THE CHICAGO RACE RIOT, 1919
The Chicago Daily Tribune, long considered the most antagonistic of all the city’s papers toward African Americans, detailed the day’s violence, the good deeds of white policemen who were sent to Chicago’s South Side, and the injuries they sustained at the hands of black rioters.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4975/
"GHASTLY DEEDS OF RIOTERS TOLD":
THE CHICAGO DEFENDER REPORTS
Like white newspapers, the city’s leading black newspaper, the Chicago Defender, helped foment the escalating racial violence that gripped the city. This article recounted the unsubstantiated beating of an “unidentified [black] woman” and her baby.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4976
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/982.htm
SEEKING THE CAUSE
Another article from the Chicago Defender about the race riot.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/983.htm
"30 RACE MEN INDICTED IN CHICAGO RIOT PROBE; ONLY THREE WHITES"
A newpaper column appearing in the Cleveland Advocate decrying the unjust indictment of a disproportionate number of blacks in connection with the Chicago race riot of 1919.
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page1.cfm?ItemID=8618
THE CAUSES OF THE CHICAGO RACE RIOT
An article published in The Crisis seeking to analyze the causes of the race riot.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1126.htm
"SAYS LAX CONDITIONS CAUSED RACE RIOTS":
CHICAGO DAILY NEWS AND CARL SANDBURG REPORT THE CHICAGO RACE RIOT OF 1919
An article by noted poet Carl Sandburg, who, unlike most white reporters, relied on black sources in researching his articles. The Chicago Daily News's reporting on the riot was generally considered the most evenhanded of the city’s daily newspapers
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4974
"THE PROBLEM" and "FAMILY HISTORIES":
CHARLES JOHNSON ANALYZES THE CAUSES OF THE CHICAGO RACE RIOT
A detailed and sober reporting of the causes of the 1919 Chicago race riot, written retrospectively by the interracial Chicago Commission on Race Relations.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4977
"LET US REASON TOGETHER": WEB DU BOIS DEFENDS BLACK RESISTANCE
In an editorial immediately following the Chicago race riot of 1919, Crisis editor W. E. B. Du Bois argued in favor of acts of self-defense and armed resistance, despite the editorial’s conciliatory title, "Let Us Reason Together."
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5128/
"THE ONLY CURE": POLITICAL CARTOON
Published shortly after the Chicago riots, this political cartoon from the Defender shows a black and a white riot ringleader both waiting by the gallows.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/984.htm