Content Warning: this article contains descriptions of racial violence. 1919 adapts speculative poetry for the stage exploring Black Chicago’s resistance and the events of Red Summer at Steppenwolf Theatre. Published in 2019 by University of Chicago sociology professor and poet Dr. Eve Ewing, 1919 explores the death of Eugene Williams and the events that led up to.
Vintage Tribune: September marks the centennial of “The Negro In Chicago,” a blue-ribbon commission’s report on a race riot that plunged the city into four days of deadly anarchy in 1919.
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It is easy to miss the plaque nestled amidst the trees and expanse of lawn near 29th Street along the lakefront on Chicago’s South Side. Paid for by York High School students in the predominantly white suburb of Elmhurst, 26km (16 miles) east of Chicago, it was installed in 2009. But, today, 102 years after one of the longest and bloodiest race riots in the city’s history, few Chicagoans are aware of the marker or the events it commemorates.
According to Peter Cole, founding director of the Chicago Race Riot (CRR19) project, “no one in Illinois actually thinks about or remembers the Chicago race riot of 1919, let alone its legacy.”