The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and A Race Riot In 1919 (1968 reprint of 1922 edition)

The Chicago Commission on Race Relations

Published by Arno Press and The New York Times, 1968

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THE NEGRO IN CHICAGO: A STUDY OF RACE RELATIONS AND A RACE RIOT IN 1919, The Chicago Commission on Race Relations, hardcover, photographs, maps, 1968 reprint of 1922 edition. BOOK CONDITION: good. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. The first few pages do have some creases. This is a former library book marked inside the back as Discard. All the usual library pockets, stamps, labels and due date slip are present, inside and out. The black and white boards are in good condition (bumped corners and spine). 9 ½ x 6 1/2, 672 pages, 44 ounces. XX [From the 1922 foreword] by Frank O. Lowden, Governor of Illinois, 1917-1921] There is no domestic problem in America which has given thoughtful men more concern than the problem of the relations between the white and the Negro races. In earlier days the colonization of the Negro, as in Liberia, was put forward as a solution. That idea was abandoned long ago. It is now recognized generally that the two races are here in America to stay. It is also certain that the problem will not be solved by methods of violence. Every race riot, every instance in which men of either race defy legal authority and take the law into their own hands, but postpones the day when the two races shall live together amicably. The law must be maintained and enforced vigorously and completely before any real progress can be made towards better race relations. Means must be found, therefore, whereby the two races can live together on terms of amity. This will be possible only if the two races are brought to understand each other better. It is believed that such understanding will result in each having a higher degree of respect for the other, and that such respect will form the basis for greatly improved relations between the races. The Commission on Race Relations, composed of distinguished representatives of both races, has made the most thorough and complete survey of the race situation that I have seen anywhere. While its field of study was necessarily limited to Chicago, the conditions there may be regarded as fairly typical of conditions in other large cities where there is a large colored population. The report does not pretend to have discovered any new formula by which all race trouble will disappear. The subject is too complex for any such simple solution. It finds certain facts, however, the mere recognition of which will go a long way towards allaying race feeling. It finds that in that portion of Chicago in which colored persons have lived longest and in the largest numbers relatively there has been the minimum of friction. This is a fact of the first importance. For it tends to show that the presence of Negroes in large numbers in our great cities is not a menace in itself.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and A Race Riot In 1919 (1968 reprint of 1922 edition)
• Publisher: Arno Press and The New York Times
• Publication Date: 1968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 44 ounces
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