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Dec 2, 2009 · Crowds gathered by the 29th Street Beach in Chicago after the drowning death of Eugene Williams, an African American teenager who had crossed an imaginary boundary in the water separating blacks...
Jul 27, 2020 · On Sunday, July 27, 1919, thousands of Chicagoans sought relief from the brutal heat on the shores of Lake Michigan. Among them was Williams, a seventeen-year-old African American who was on a raft with some friends.
Jul 22, 2021 · The teen whose killing sparked those riots, Eugene Williams, has been buried in an unmarked grave at Lincoln Cemetery, but on Saturday, a grave marker is being dedicated.
The turmoil came to a boil during a summer heat wave with the murder of the 17-year-old Eugene Williams, an African-American teenager who inadvertently had drifted into a white swimming area at an informally segregated beach near 29th Street.
Jun 2, 2020 · On Sunday, July 27, Eugene Williams, a 17-year-old black youth, accidentally drifted into an area of water that was deemed to be for “whites only.” One white beachgoer, indignant, began hurling rocks at Williams, causing the teen to drown.
On Sunday, July 27, 1919, an unusually hot summer day, Black seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams and four of his friends took a homemade wooden raft out into Lake Michigan on the South Side. They pushed off from 26th Street beach, the only beach in the city reserved for Black beachgoers and swimmers.
Feb 18, 2021 · The Chicago race riot began at the 29th Street Beach after the drowning of Eugene Williams, a Black teenager who had crossed an invisible line in the water separating Black people from white ...
Jul 26, 2019 · On Sunday, July 27, 1919, thousands of Chicagoans sought relief from the brutal heat on the shores of Lake Michigan. Among them was Eugene Williams, a seventeen-year-old African American.
Eugene Williams. Born: 1902. Occupation: Porter. Killed: July 27th, 1919. Cause of death: Drowned. Eugene Williams, whose death sparked the deadly riots, originally was from Georgia, born March 10, 1902.
Aug 1, 2019 · Who was Eugene Williams? The black teenager’s death sparked Chicago’s 1919 race riot, but few facts are known about Williams himself.
