While industry was closed, the packing plants arranged to deliver pay to certain places in the city so that African-American men could pick up their wages
The pay stations mentioned on EBSCO.
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These four units totaled 3,500 men
These militia regiments were mentioned in the report, but were not specifically labelled.
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The Chief of Police, John J. Garrity, closed "all places where men congregate for other than religious purposes" to help restore order.
This wasn't mentioned on EBSCO. It seems like a significant note to make.
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Rioters stretched cables across the streets to prevent fire trucks from entering the areas.
This was not mentioned in the report.
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The majority of the rioting, murder, and arson was the result of white ethnic groups attacking the African American population in the city's Black Belt on the South Side
This is almost the exact wording in the EBSCO report.
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some whites seeking to help save Eugene Williams, reporting other whites to the police, denouncing the violence, and bringing food to black communities
The other sources hardly talk about the White individuals who try to help the Black communities. It's interesting, but understandable that this source would.
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throwing rocks at black swimmers in the water at a beach on the South Side which resulted in Eugene Williams' death
This references the rock-throwing as a more general action. The report on EBSCO worded it in a way that made it sound like he specifically targeted Eugene only.
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Chicago riot
This Wikipedia article agrees with other sources that this was a riot, as opposed to a massacre or a pogrom.
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African-American migrants arrived after waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
Here is the mention of, or at least a hint towards, the Slavic immigrants.
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closed to avoid interaction among bickering groups
This is certainly an interesting way to refer to the turmoil between groups. I would not describe it as "bickering."
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black workers seeking to get to and from employment were attacked
This corresponds with how the EBSCO report mentioned the attacks on stockyard workers.
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days of unrest
This is putting it mildly. I would have used the word "violence" if I had written this.
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The turmoil came to a boil during a summer heat wave with the death of Eugene Williams
This phrasing is almost exactly the same as in the EBSCO report on the riot.
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It is considered the worst of the nearly 25 riots in the United States during the "Red Summer" of 1919, so named because of the racial and labor related violence and fatalities across the nation.
Here is where the article brings this riot into the perspective of riots as a whole.
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on July 27, and ended on August 3, 1919
The EBSCO source references that the riot officially ended with the withdraw of the militia on the seventh, not the third.
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