Racism in American Society
Chicago Race Riots of 1919 
Chicago Race Riot of 1919, most severe of approximately 25 race riots throughout the U.S. in the “Red Summer” (meaning “bloody”) following World War I; a manifestation of racial frictions intensified by large-scale African American migration to the North, industrial labour competition, overcrowding in urban ghettos, and greater militancy among Black war veterans who had fought “to preserve democracy.”
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
How Race is Made in America - Immigration, citizenship and the historical power of racial scripts
How Race is Made in America examines Mexican Americans - from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished—to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed.
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Why African-Americans left the South in droves. Duration 6 mins 22 sec.
During the Great Depression, unemployment among African-Americans was twice that of whites, due to segregation. Duration 1 min 50 sec.
Timuel Black recalls how growing up in the “Black Belt” on the South Side of Chicago was like growing up “in a city within a city.” Duration 1 min 55 sec.
Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA, 1850-2009 by 