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In Chicago at this time, many men are fighting in WW1, causing for there to be many jobs avalible. So the African Americans took the advantage. They came North to Chicago and took the jobs.
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Troops come home to nothing. No jobs, No homes. It was all taken from the African Americans.
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250,000 Chicagoans were on strike. Chicago was shut down: Soldiers, Policemen, Firfighters, Citizens, etc. All were on Strike. Due to War-Related Tentions.
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Chicago Riot(Race Riot): Where whites were fighting african american due to several post WW1 dynamics.
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African American Population grew by 50% in Chicago.
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Mayor Thompson(Big Bill), noticed the popualtion growth of the African Americans. So he won the trust of the African Americans symbolically, and subtantivlly. Which was the Main Reasons why he was elected Mayor.
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26 homes were bombed. Due to African Americans living in a White Neighborhood. White people drowned an African American boy. White Gangs Patrolled the streets, drivebys, fights, etc.
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Chicago was a Powder Keg of Ethnic and Racial Tentions.
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112,000 Germans left Chicago. Causing pentiful of jobs, wages were high, and laybor unrest was Minimal.
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120,000 African American settled in Chicago.
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KKK, makes their first apperance in Chicago.
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1.5 Million African Americans left the South to the North.
