Photo Credits

Fig. 1: Chicago community areas,” “Fig. 2: West Side community areas,” “Figs. 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d: Racial composition of the West Side 1940–1970,” and “Fig. 4: West Side schools” produced by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Cartography & GIS Center. © The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reprinted by permission.

“A Negro Family Just Arrived in Chicago from the Rural South” is reprinted from Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922), facing p. 92.

ACT leaflet is reprinted from Chicago Daily News, “In Chicago, Scores Hurt in Riot,” August 14, 1965, p. 4. Best attempts were made to find the creator of this leaflet.

“Outside NU Bursar’s office, May 3,1968, with white sympathizers.” Photo by James Sweet. Reprinted from the James S. Sweet Collection, Northwestern University Archives.

“Dunk tank at Riverview Amusement Park, date unknown” is reprinted from Living History of Illinois and Chicago, “Removal of the ‘African Dip’ dunk tank game from Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago, Illinois,” livinghistoryofillinois.com.

“Dunk Tank, Riverview Park, circa 1921” is supplied courtesy of Sharpshooters Productions, Inc., printed from the original negative for use in Laugh Your Troubles Away: The Complete History of Riverview Park by Derek Gee and Ralph Lopez (Chicago: Sharpshooters Productions, Inc. 2000).

“West Side destruction after riots, April 1968.” Photograph by Jo Freeman, www.jofreeman.com. Reprinted by permission.