Race War Flares Up: Chicago’s Swedish Press, the Great Migration, and the 1919 Riots

This study of the three large Swedish-language weeklies in Chicago examines how they covered the city’s African-American community during the latter half of the 1910s, a time when blacks migrated to the North in huge numbers. In Chicago, the result was that the African-American population almost tri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ulf Jonas Björk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CBS Open Journals 2019-03-01
Series:American Studies in Scandinavia
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Online Access:https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/5788