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The Chicago race riot of 1919 begins. It was ignited after a young Black man was stoned and drowned in Lake Michigan for swimming in an area reserved for whites. it was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that lasted eight days. During the riot, 38 people died, 537 were injured and between 1,000 and 2,000 residents, most of them black, lost their homes. The riot is considered the worst of the scores of riots and civil disturbances across the United States during the "Red Summer" of 1919. More