Chicago Race Riots
"A Crowd of Howling Negroes"
Newspaper article
By: Chicago Tribune
Date: July 28, 1919
Source: "A Crowd of Howling Negroes." Chicago Daily Tribune, July 28, 1919. Available online at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4975 (accessed April 9, 2003).
About the Publicaton: The Chicago Daily Tribune began publication in 1847 and established itself by the turn of the century as the Midwest's most influential daily newspaper. At the time of the Chicago race riots in July 1919, cousins Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson were the paper's copublishers. McCormick's influence proved critical to the paper's opposition to liberalism. In June 1919, Patterson started the nation's first tabloid-style paper, the New York Illustrated Daily News, which reached a circulation of over one million by the...
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