PRIMARY SOURCES:

Anatomy of Four Race Riots: Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa, and Chicago, 1919-1921, By Lee Williams

​Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920, By Allan Spear

City of American dreams : a history of home ownership and housing reform in Chicago, 1871-1919, By Margaret Garb

Negro Art: Past and Present, 1936, By Alain LeRoy

Race Riot, Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919, 1970, By William M. Tuttle, Jr. 

​The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919, By Carl Sandburg

The Negro In Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot, By Chicago Commission on Race Relations

ADDITIONAL CLASSROOM RESOURCES:
​
Newberry Library - Chicago and Great Migration 1915-1950
Newberry Library - Lifting as We Climb: African American Women’s Clubs in Progressive Era Chicago
Chicagology
Chicago History Museum 
Chicago Tribune Photographs
​

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READING

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS

​