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