Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power by Simon Balto

Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

Simon Balto

360 pages paperback 2019

2 editions

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migration. Their arrival in Chicago drew the ire and scorn of many local whites, including members of the ci...

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