Massacres & mob attacks
Chicago Race Riot of 1919
27 July - 3 August 1919The South Side, from the 29th Street beach, Chicago, IL
White bathers stoned a Black teenager off the 29th Street beach until he drowned, and police arrested no one. A week of attacks across the South Side killed 38 people and burned about a thousand Black residents out of their homes.
- People killed
- 38
- People displaced
- 1,000
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.