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On July 1919, Chicago Illinois swept a wave of destruction that left 23 african americans and 15 whites dead, 537 injured, and over million dollars of property damage. This was one of the most devastating of all the 25 race riots that occurred in the country during the â€Å"Red Summers† of 1919. Under the pressure of the Great Migration and living condition worsen, tensions grew in size.. Adding to the racial antipathy that led to the riots were historic conflicts over labor. For decades white workers in Chicago's stockyards had excluded the black workers, denying them their membership, blacks had often allowed themselves to be used as replacement labor. Despite some positive movement toward integration of labor unions, by the summer of 1919, it all exploded on July 27, where an african boy was killed after he crossed an unofficial segregation line and was stoned to death. The result would be widespread violence in the streets, turning neighbor against neighbor, white again st black, worker against coworker Throughout Chicago this â€Å"segregation† is quite real. It’s reach a point where th...