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Political unrest · 27 July–3 August 1919Open article references →
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
29th Street beach and the South Side conflict area · United States
Why editors use it hereDigitized 1922 commission investigation of housing, labor, policing, beaches, and testimony.
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After Black teenager Eugene Williams drowned at an informally segregated Chicago beach on 27 July 1919, police refused to arrest the white man accused of throwing stones at him.
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Trigger and conditions
Williams drifted across an invisible swimming boundary near 29th Street and was struck or threatened by stones from shore.
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Uncertainty
Sources agree Williams was struck or menaced by stones before drowning, though precise causation and individual responsibility were never fully adjudicated.
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Why it matters
The riot began at a beach but was built by housing exclusion, labor conflict, policing inequity, and tolerated gang violence.
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