Results From The Riot
Many lives have been taken on both sides because of ongoing retaliations and trying to overpower another race to show that they can't be treated any different. Nonstop of gang violence sheds the blood that's left on the streets for women and children to see in a sad and desperate way. Knowing that it has been recorded as more than two dozen dead, leaves a heavy heart behind within everyone.
"Also published in the Washington Bee, this August 1919 cartoon denounced the decision of the Illinois state’s attorney to only indict African Americans (many of whom had defended themselves against mob attacks) after Chicago’s 1919 race riot. Evidence of white crimes against blacks collected by the NAACP led the grand jury in Chicago to go “on strike” until the state’s attorney presented cases against white defendants, an action also referenced by the cartoon"
"White men stoning a black man to death."
"GUARDSMEN QUESTIONING MAN, 1919"