. The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot. e DailyNews and learned that the advertisement had been handed to a clerk in type-written form and with a typewritten signature, and paid for in advance,whereas Blairs regular advertising was done on a charge account. This andother information tended to show that the agent was not responsible for theadvertisement. In its issue of Monday, July 12, the Daily News printed anexplanatory statement. Other speakers at the meeting were a real estate dealer and an indignation was expressed over the false light in w
. The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot. e DailyNews and learned that the advertisement had been handed to a clerk in type-written form and with a typewritten signature, and paid for in advance,whereas Blairs regular advertising was done on a charge account. This andother information tended to show that the agent was not responsible for theadvertisement. In its issue of Monday, July 12, the Daily News printed anexplanatory statement. Other speakers at the meeting were a real estate dealer and an indignation was expressed over the false light in which thecommunity had been placed. Even the suggestion that Negroes might bychance become a part of this community seemed to be abhorrent. As far asNegroes were concerned there was no excitement, but they resented beingused to frighten white residents. Contested neighborhoods.—The contested neighborhoods are by far themost important among the types of non-adjusted neighborhoods, both becauseof the actual presence in them of varying numbers of Negroes and their. THE NEGRO POPULATION OF CHICAGO 117 bearing on the future relations of the races. The efforts in such neighborhoodsto keep out Negroes involve stimulation of anti-Negro sentiment and organi-zation of property owners, and the campaign against the presence of Negroesas neighbors develops into a campaign against Negroes. Negroes in turnresent both the propaganda statements and the organized efforts. A continu-ous struggle, marked by bombings, foreclosures of mortgages, and court dis-putes, is the result. The most conspicuous type of a contested neighborhood is that knownas Kenwood and Hyde Park. In this general neighborhood, from Thirty-ninth to Fifty-ninth streets and from State Street to Lake Michigan, hostilitytoward Negroes has been plainly and even forcibly expressed through organizedefforts to oust them and prevent their further encroachment. The situationis peculiar. This is the part of the old South Side in which
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