The Negro in Chicago : a Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Chicago Commission on Race Relations - 1923

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923. 3rd printing. Hardcover. Good. Thick octavo (standard size). Some wear and scuffing to edges and corners of boards. Top corners bumped. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. 672 p. w/ illus, maps (some fold-out), appendix, index. A detailed study of the 1919 Chicago race riot, along with demographic, institutional, social, migratory, industrial, educational, and judicial data and anecdotes concerning race relations. Notes many of the same institutional and social challenges African Americans face today.