Race Riot"The origins of the Chicago race riot of 1919 are to be found, not in high level policy, but in gut level animosities between black and white people who were generally inarticulate and presentist oriented, and who did not record their motivations or feelings for posterity. . . To explain the Chicago riot, this evidence has to be found; and though such evidence is not abundant by any means, it does exist." From the preface