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Title: The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Chicago Commission on Race Relations
Subjects: African Americans Race riots
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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gh-class resort on the South Side. She got a location as a neighbor of reputablecolored people by purchasing the home of a former alderman and leader in a church,the one of which the Rev. John P. Brushingham, secretary of Mayor ThompsonsMorals Commission, is the pastor. The woman was one of the most notorious ofthe demimonde. An oil painting of her, as she was before her husband in a fit ofjealousy bit off a part of her nose, for years hung in a saloon of international reputation. These are some of the influences which the colored population is forced to combatin its fight for decency and good citizenship. A few secure political preferment andothers profit by catering to the citys vices, while the rank and file are hedged aroundby demoralizing influences and the race is discredited unjustly. Another chapter of this series dealt with gambling in the South Sidedistrict. Here are two excerpts: HOMES OCCUPIED BY NEGROES ON EOREST AVENUE(Note pavement and smoke)Classified in text as Type C
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REAR VIEW OF HOUSES OCCUPIED BY NEGROES ON FEDERAL STREETClassified in text as Type D THE NEGRO HOUSING PROBLEM 203 Colored men are in active control of the gambling situation in the big part of theirdistrict in the second ward. Back of them are white police officials at one end of theline and white politicians who keep them in power at the other end of the line. Whensecond ward, and even some adjacent ward, gambling is discussed by gamblers onthe inside, certain colored men are always mentioned. They are called the syndi-cate, and their approval is said to be necessary if the police are to let anybody runin the ward. Whether gambling is a more dangerous cause of demoralization of a communitythan are disorderly saloons, buffet flats and dissolute women is an often discussedquestion. Gambling is a mans game, is more open, and the connection between it,the police, and politics easier to trace. In order to gamble the police must be evaded,which is difficult, or made blind by a peculiar r

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