. The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot. of children, some not more than four or five years old, swarmedin front of the Forty-seventh Street car in the John Mills case and effectivelyblocked it while men climbed aboard and sought out the Negroes. Children,often witnesses of mob brutality, ran to where Negro victims had fallen andpointed them out to the policemen who came up after the mobs had dispersed. There were others, still children in mind, Negro boys of fifteen, accusedof murders. The enormity of their acts faded in the joy of describing theirweapons. Fat had a
. The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot. of children, some not more than four or five years old, swarmedin front of the Forty-seventh Street car in the John Mills case and effectivelyblocked it while men climbed aboard and sought out the Negroes. Children,often witnesses of mob brutality, ran to where Negro victims had fallen andpointed them out to the policemen who came up after the mobs had dispersed. There were others, still children in mind, Negro boys of fifteen, accusedof murders. The enormity of their acts faded in the joy of describing theirweapons. Fat had a club; it looked like a police club, said one, it hadleather on it. And the gun had a little picture of an owl on the side of it,said another describing a patched-up weapon that brought down a whitelaboring-man who left a widow and eight children. Among the spectators of mob violence were men, women, and childrenof all ages; they included tradesmen, craftsmen, salesmen, laborers. Thoughthe spectators did not commit the crimes, they must share the moral responsi-. SCENES FROM FIRE IN IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD BACK OF THE YARDS
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