Is there any history in chicago,illinois of social injustice?
January 28th, 2009 | by Michael |
AnnaLee asked:
I’m doing a history fair,project on the local history of chicago, and i really want to know if there’s a case, article or anything like that of social injustice. Nothing about slavery just…well social injustice is always about some kind of prejudice though. It coould be *********** or intraracial (intrarcial is when the same race become competitive with each other based on looks intelligence whatever the case, but it has nothing to do with race just status). This has to go back at least 25 years.
IRVING
I’m doing a history fair,project on the local history of chicago, and i really want to know if there’s a case, article or anything like that of social injustice. Nothing about slavery just…well social injustice is always about some kind of prejudice though. It coould be *********** or intraracial (intrarcial is when the same race become competitive with each other based on looks intelligence whatever the case, but it has nothing to do with race just status). This has to go back at least 25 years.
IRVING
4 Responses to “Is there any history in chicago,illinois of social injustice?”
By rhsaunders on Jan 28, 2009 | Reply
Check out the Haymarket riots. I have no theory as to who was on the right side of that mess, but it is worth investigating.
By sarah111 on Jan 31, 2009 | Reply
What? You’re hard-pressed for social injustice in Chicago, IL???? Give me a break. I believe its Chicago owning one of the worst scandals of the later 20th century, it went on for decades. What are the details, I don’t remember specifically but it involves pretty bad stuff. Torture? Yeah, back before it was a public discussion whether “torture” was “OK”, the Chicago police were torturing people. It came out fairly recently, and so kind of got drowned with all the Abu Graib (spell?) and Guantanamo (spell?) but it was totally scandalous. It seems wierd you have to ask.
By Xamanator on Feb 1, 2009 | Reply
Agree with the last answerer - my God man it’s not too hard to find - look at the history of immigrant workers in the stock marts as described by Sinclair Lewis in “The Jungle”.
By mr danger on Feb 4, 2009 | Reply
look up Jane Addams/ Hull house - she was one of the greatest social reformers in American historty and her base was Chicago