Chicago’s Red Summer

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Code Switch : Chicago’s Red Summer Image

Chicago’s Red Summer

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Almost exactly 100 years ago, race riots broke out all across the United States. The Red Summer, as it came to be known, occurred in more than two dozen cities across the nation, including Chicago, where black soldiers returning home from World War I refused to be treated as second class citizens.