. The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot. afe in sayingthat he could not then get $8,000 for it. A city alderman was one of thespeakers at this meeting. Most of the real estate dealers in the area were claimed as members of theKenwood and Hyde Park Association or its Grand Boulevard branch. Specialreference was made at various times and in scathing terms to dealers whodeclined to affiliate. At the meeting of the Grand Boulevard district onJanuary 19, 1920, it was reported that the Executive Committee of the parentassociation had succeeded during the previous two or thr
. The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot. afe in sayingthat he could not then get $8,000 for it. A city alderman was one of thespeakers at this meeting. Most of the real estate dealers in the area were claimed as members of theKenwood and Hyde Park Association or its Grand Boulevard branch. Specialreference was made at various times and in scathing terms to dealers whodeclined to affiliate. At the meeting of the Grand Boulevard district onJanuary 19, 1920, it was reported that the Executive Committee of the parentassociation had succeeded during the previous two or three months in educatingreal estate men. The colored man, a speaker said, would have neverbeen in this district had not our real estate men in their ambition to acquirewealth and commissions, which is perfectly legitimate, put them here, althoughthis action on their part has been very shortsighted, as some of them nowadmit. This speaker said also that the Associations greatest successeshad been in getting all but five or six of the real estate men to sign a pledge. THE NEGRO POPULATION OF CHICAGO 121 not to show or rent or sell any property within our locality that we claimjurisdiction of in the future to colored people. The Property Owners Journal exerted no little influence in the creationof this sentiment. Claiming a wide circulation, its utterances were soextreme in bitterness against Negroes that many of the residents of the district,although opposed to the coming in of Negroes, held aloof from the organizationbecause they could not indorse appeals to race hatred and advocacy of measureswhich they felt were illegal and dangerously near to violence. These extractsare from its issue of December 13, 1919: To damage a mans property and destroy its value is to rob him. The personwho commits that act is a robber. Every owner has the right to defend his propertyto the utmost of his ability with every means at his disposal. Any property owmer who sells property anywhere in our distr
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