Now showing
Red Chicago (2020-03-01)
About this film
This episode from the second season of The Future of America’s Past, a public television series, explores the violent and deadly conflict known as the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Topics discussed include the incident that precipitated the week-long violence, when white youths attacked a young Black swimmer without provocation, killing him and spurring retaliation; coverage of the violence in the city’s newspapers, including the photojournalism of Jun Fujita; a 1920 report, “The Negro in Chicago,” which sought to explain the violence and shaped decades of city policy around housing and law enforcement; contemporary reflections of this history in the work of poet Eve Ewing and performance artist Jefferson Pinder; and an effort by the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project to design and install pavement markers — inspired by German stolpersteine, honoring Holocaust victims — on city streets.
Directors & creators
Field Studio
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Chicago Race Riot of 1919, Red Summer, Racial Violence, Chicago History, Great Migration, Bronzeville, Eugene Williams, Segregation, Police Failure, Government Negligence, African American History, World War I Veterans, Systemic Racism, Civil Rights, Mob Violence, Urban History, Social Justice, 29th Street Beach, Black Belt, American History, Labor History, Race Relations
More from this pool