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The Negro in Chicago

CTL-W-1233 · Work

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Combined Graph record U-02357 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-1233. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Chicago Commission on Race Relations report on the 1919 riot; documented Black tenants paying ~20% more than whites

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Chicago Commission on Race Relations report on the 1919 riot; documented Black tenants paying ~20% more than whites

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Full title: 'The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot' Author: The Chicago Commission on Race Relations Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois Year: 1922, matching the stored prop The Commission was appointed by Governor Lowden on August 20, 1919, following the Chicago race riot of July and August 1919, to study and report on relations between the two races

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