INDEX

Abraham Lincoln Center, 150

"Abyssinians," murders by, 59; group, 60, 480, 537

Addams, Jane, 19, 55

Adler, Herman M., 35

Aftermath of riot, 46

Ages of rioters, 13, 22

American Federation of Labor, 405

American Red Cross, 45, 150

Appreciation of property, 211

Arms and ammunition, 21

Arrests in riots, 328

Associated Negro Presses, 521

Associated Press, 553

"Athletic" clubs, 11, 55; grand jury recommendation on, 16

Athletic teams, 253

Atlanta Constitution, 84

Atlanta Independent, 81

Attitudes, in public opinion, 457

Automobile raids, 6, 18

"Back of the Yards" fire, 7, 20; newspaper handling of, 539

Barrett murder, 64

Bathing-beaches, 274

Beliefs concerning Negroes, 437; background of, 445, 451; of fifteen Negroes, 493; held by fifteen white men, 459; primary, 438; secondary, 443

Biographical notes of Commissioners, 625

Black Belt, 6, 8; "cleaning up the," 567; concentration of police in, 36; housing in, 184.

"Black and tan" resorts, 323

Board of Education, 239, 256; Quincy, 235; recommendations to, 643

Boaz, Franz, 450

Bombings, 117, 122; newspapers on, 532

Bubbly Creek rumor, 32

Cabarets, 344

Chicago American, 548, 554

Chicago Commission on Race Relations: appointments by Governor Lowden, xvi; biographical sketches, 652; plan of work, xvii; staff, 653

Chicago Daily News, 116, 202, 212, 524, 548

Chicago Defender, 87, 492, 557

Chicago Evening Post, 553

Chicago Federation of Labor, 406

Chicago Herald-Examiner, 524, 550

Chicago newspapers, an intensive study of, 531

Chicago Real Estate Board, 216, 219

Chicago Riot, 1, 595; background, 2; beginning, 4; clashes before, 53; coroner's jury recommendations on, 49; factors of, 9, 25; Negro press on, 488; outstanding features of, 48; police orders, 37

Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, 184, 218

Chicago Searchlight, 557

Chicago Tribune, 453, 476, 524, 551

Chicago Urban League, 45, 104, 135, 146, 185, 193, 365, 368

Chicago Whip, 557

Chief of Police, 36

Children of immigrants, 256

Children, participation in riot, 22

Chronological story of riot, 5

Churches, 142; pastors, 140; property, 145; relief work by, 144

City Council, recommendations to, 642

Civil Rights Act, 232

Clashes, 9; minor, 53; in parks, 288; types of, 17

Commercial enterprises, 140

Conclusions, 594

Contacts; in public place, 309; racial, 231

Contested neighborhoods, 117

Convictions in riot, 48

Co-operative racial efforts, 326

Coroner's jury, 47; recommendations of, 49

Courts: injustice in, 85; Negro in, 332

Crime, 327; authorities on, 345; beliefs concerning Negro, 440; and environment, 341, 621; impressions of Negro, 328; the press on, 524

Criminal statistics, 328

Crisis, 515, 518

Crowds, 22

Cultural contacts, 325

Death of riot, 1; epitome of facts, 655

Defensive philosophy, 508

Defensive policies, 484

Depreciation of property, 194; after coming of Negroes, 200; general factors in, 196; in Hyde Park, 205; in a Prairie Avenue block, 212

Deputy sheriffs, 43

Deterioration of property, 196

Discrimination: in arrests, 35; in courts, 352; in public places, 310; in public schools, 234; in recreation, 277; in wages, 365; in work, 391, 419

Domestic workers, 370

Duke, Charles, 34, 201

East St. Louis Riots, 71; Congressional Committee report on, 72

Efficiency, of Negro labor, 374

Elementary schools, 246

Emotionality, beliefs concerning Negro, 442

Employers, recommendations to, 647

Employment agencies, 431

Establishments employing Negroes, 361

Exclusive neighborhoods, 115

Experiments with Negro women workers, 380

Factors influencing growth of riot, 9, 25

Family histories, group of, 170

Financial resources of Negroes, 227

Financial support of Commission, xvii

Fire "back of the Yards," 539

Fitzpatrick, John, 415, 426

Fraternal organizations, 141

Gambling, 344

Gangs, 3, 7, 11; murders by, 55

Garvey, Marcus, 60, 493

Gompers, Samuel, 364

Grand Jury Recommendations, 51

Growth of riot, 7

High schools, 252

Home ownership by Negroes, 215

Hotel employees, 368

Housing of Negroes, 152; financial aspects of, 215; newspaper handling of, 528, 542; physical aspects of, 184; types, 186

Hyde Park, 117; depreciation of property in, 205

Identification, Bureau of, 335

Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, 150

Illiteracy, and race problems, 497

Immigrant children, 256

Incendiary fires, 20

Indictments in riot, 48

Industries: attitude of Negroes toward, 385; excluding Negroes, 391; Negroes in Chicago, 357, 623; relations of whites with, 393

Industry, recommendations, 647

Infective environment, 342

Injuries and deaths of riot, 10

Interracial efforts, 326

Investigators of Commission, 653

Italians, 19

Jones, Thomas Jesse, 82

Judges, testimony of, 345

Juvenile delinquency, 333

Kenwood and Hyde Park Property Owners' Association, 118, 132, 204, 210, 589

Labor turnover, 377

Labor Unions and Negroes, 403; attitude of locals toward Negroes, 412-20; attitude of Negroes, 420; opinions of labor leaders, 432; and race prejudice, 435; recommendations to, 643, 647

Lake Park Avenue, 107, 159

Legal status of Negroes, 232

Lithuanians, 8, 21, 160

Loans to Negroes on property, 220

Lodgers, 162

"Loop" rioting, 8, 20

Lynchings, 582

McDowell, Mary, 20, 55, 415

Membership in unions, 411

Mencken, H. L., 443

Mental complexes, of Negroes, 502

Mentality, beliefs concerning, 430, 445, 459

Messenger magazine, 489, 490

Migrants in Chicago, 93, 97, 117, 169

Migration from South, 79, 602; efforts to check, 103; the press on, 529

Militia, conduct of, 40; distribution of, 41; recommendations to, 640

Minor clashes, 53

Misrepresentation of Negroes in press, 521

Mississippi, appropriations for white and colored schools, 82

Mob, a Negro and a, 481

Mobs, 22, 33

Morality, beliefs concerning, 439, 447, 459

Morgan Park, 107, 137

Myths, 577; concerning Negro mentality, 579; rape, 582; sex, 584

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 148, 575

National Urban League, 575

Negro children, scholarship of, 256

Negro community, 139-52

Negro families, 152; histories, 170; housing, 152-230; living, 165

Negro labor: classification of workers, 364; compared with white labor, 374; domestic, 370; employers' experience with, 372; future in industry, 400; increase in, 362; organized, 403, 429; southern, 363; use of, to reduce wages, 398

Negro and a mob, 481

Negro population of Chicago, 106; trend, 135

Negro press, 132, 304; and crime publicity, 557; handling of news, 556; policy, 563; on race riot, 488; recommendations to, 650; sources of news, 567

Negro problems, 505; radicals, 574; revolt, 540

Negro soldiers, newspaper handling of, 524

Negro teachers, 247, 251

Negro women in industry, 367, 378

Negroes: in Chicago industries, 358; discriminations against, 234; in labor unions, 412; and leaders, 505; legal status in Illinois, 232; and public opinion, 475; recommendations to, 645

Neighborhood improvement associations, 192

Neighborhoods of Negro residence, 108, 113, 115

Newspapers, 60; attitude of Negroes toward, 521; on bombing, 532; handling of Negro news, 523; intensive study of, 531; on migration, 529; on Negro crime, 524; on Negro housing, 528; on Negro in politics, 527; policy, 547, 563; and the riot, 26, 44

North migration to, 29

North Side, 108, 112

Occupations of Negroes, 263, 358

Ogden Park, 107

Opinion-making: instruments of, 635; among Negroes, 514

Opinions: of Negroes, 475, 493, 630; of whites, 459, 630

Opportunities for Negroes: in industry, 357; training for recreation directors, 296

Organizations, of Negroes, 141

Other outbreaks, 53

Outlying neighborhoods, 136

Overage in public schools, 239

Overcrowding, 156

Parents, attitudes of, 250

Park boards, recommendations to, 642

Parks and playgrounds, 275

Parole and probation, 335

Penal institutions, 338

Philosophy, racial, 508

Phyllis Wheatley Home, 149

Police: conduct of, 4, 5, 21, 33, 38, 66; distribution of, in riot area, 37; distrust of, by Negroes, 35; raids on Negro clubs, 16; recommendations to, 640

Politics, 3, 39; the press on Negroes in, 527

Population: Negro and white in Chicago, 106, 605; working, 357

Press: of Chicago, 520, 523; handling of Negro news, 524; opinions of Negroes regarding, 485, 514, 521; recommendations to, 650

Propaganda: charges of, by Negroes, 492; defensive, 592; malicious, 589; and public opinion, 587; racial educational, 587

Property: appreciation of, 211; depreciation of, 194

Property Owners' Journal, 121, 590

Prostitution, houses of in Negro area, 344

Protective Circle, 130, 593

Provident Hospital, 150

Psychological basis of Negro crime, 342

Public, the, recommendations to, 644

Public opinion, 436, 630; expressed by Negroes, 475; and propaganda, 587; and rumor, 568

Public schools, 238; contact problems, 244; elementary, 246; physical equipment, 241; social activities, 254; technical high schools, 256

Pullman porters, 369, 390

Race consciousness, 487

Race friction among workers, 393

Race prejudice, 503

Race problems, 478; and acquisition of wealth, 495; and illiteracy, 497; opinions of Negroes on, 493; opinions on solution of, 495; and religion, 500; and suffrage, 499

Race relations, 436, 494; in industry, 392

Racial contacts, 231, 613; newspapers on, 530

Racial solidarity, 509

Radical propaganda, 587

"Ragen's Colts," 12, 14, 55, 482

Raids on Negro clubs, 15

Railroad Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association, 409

Railroad workers, 369

Ravenswood, 108

Recommendations of Chicago Commission on Race Relations, 639; to Board of Education, 642; to city council and administration boards, 642; to Negroes, 646; to places of public accommodation, 649; to police, militia, state's attorney, and courts, 640; to the press, 650; to public, 644; to social and civic organizations, 643; to street-car companies, 649; to white members of public, 645

Recreation, 271; centers, 273; contacts in, of school children, 266; facilities for, 272

Religion: beliefs concerning Negroes', 449; and race problems, 499

Religious organizations, 142

Rents, 162

Restoration of order, 43

Retardation, 239, 256; causes of, 258; of Negro children, 261, 439

Ridicule, by press, 545

Riot area, 8

Riot deaths, epitome of facts concerning, 655

Riot injuries, 667

Robbins, Illinois, 138

Rumor, 5, 6, 19, 21; of atrocities, 576; "Bubbly Creek," 570; in East St. Louis Riot, 572; and migration, 576; within Negro group, 575; and the press, 25; and public opinion, 568

Scholarship, 256

Schools: contacts in, 238; physical equipment of, 241

Segregation: opinions of Negroes, 509; opinions of whites, 459, 473

Sentiment: group, 456; of Negroes, 478; types of, 437, 451

Sex crimes, 332

Social agencies, 146, 193

Social and civic organizations, recommendations to, 643

Social waste in Negro employment, 392

South: educational facilities for Negroes in, 239; injustice in courts in, 85; migration from, 79; traditions of, 456

South Side, 107, 156, 184; property depreciation on, 198

Springfield riot, 67

Staff of Chicago Commission on Race Relations, 653

State's attorney, 8, 34; recommendations to, 640

Stock Yards, 44, 66; Negro workers in, 389; strike of 1904, 430; unions, 412

"Store Front" churches, 144

Street-car clashes, 7, 10, 17

Street-car companies, recommendations to, 649

Strike-breaking, 412, 427

Strikes, participation of Negroes in, 430

Suffrage and race problems, 499

Summary of findings by Commission, 595

Thompson, Mayor William Hale, 40

Traffic: concentration of Negro, 298; distribution, 300

Transportation contacts, 297; attitudes on, 452; recommendations on, 649

Unions, 403, 439; Negro membership in, 411

Union League Club, 46

United Charities, 150

Vice, 342

Vice Commission report, 343

Voluntary grouping, 249, 285

Volunteers, 42

Wages, 365

War, opportunities created by, 357

Waukegan, racial outbreak, 57; newspaper handling of, 541

Wealth of Negroes, 495

West Side, 108, 111, 156, 191

Williams, Eugene, 4

Women in industry, 367, 378

Women and riot, 17

Women's Trade Union League, 402, 414

Woodlawn, 107, 111

Y.M.C.A., 46, 147

Y.W.C.A. (Indiana Avenue Branch), 149

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