Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The following variant spellings are noted, but were left unchanged: instalment and installment whisky and whiskey instal and install pretense and pretence The footnotes for markers 41 and 73 are missing. Several table totals are incorrect. Two numbers were corrected, Table XIV: Late Entering, Doolittle, Negro corrected to 190. Total white students, Smyth: 57 All other numbers were left as in the original. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. THE NEGRO IN CHICAGO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY NEW YORK THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO, FUKUOKA, SENDAI THE MISSION BOOK COMPANY SHANGHAI [Illustration: CHICAGO RACE RIOT--BEGINNING OF THE RIOT WHITES AND NEGROES LEAVING TWENTY-NINTH STREET BEACH AFTER THE DROWNING OF EUGENE WILLIAMS] THE NEGRO IN CHICAGO A STUDY OF RACE RELATIONS AND A RACE RIOT BY THE CHICAGO COMMISSION ON RACE RELATIONS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT 1922 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO All Rights Reserved Published September 1922 Second Impression January 1923 Third Impression March 1923 Composed and Printed By The University of Chicago Press Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix LIST OF MAPS x FOREWORD BY HONORABLE FRANK O. LOWDEN xiii INTRODUCTION xv THE PROBLEM xxiii