Fernwood Park race riot

The Fernwood Park race riot took place in mid August 1947 in the Fernwood, Chicago neighborhood. Riots took place between 98th and 111th streets. It was one of the worst race riots in Chicago history.

In mid August, 1947, several black veterans and their families moved into the CHA Fernwood Park housing project at 104th and Halsted. Area residents viewed this as one of several attempts by the CHA to initiate racial integration into white communities.^[1] A violent mob action resulted which lasted for three days and mobilized over 1,000 law enforcement officers to control.^[2]

The police did little to stop the rioting, as was the case a year before at the Airport Homes race riots.^[3]

Notes

↑ Arnold R. Hirsch, (1998) "Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960", pg. 54. University of Chicago Press: 1998
↑ Chicago Tribune, August 17, 1947, pg. 10. "1,000 Policemen keep order at Homes Project."
↑ "Making the second ghetto: race and housing in Chicago, 1940-1960" by Arnold Richard Hirsch (1998)

Riots and civil unrest in Illinois

Race riots	Pana riot of 1899 Springfield race riot of 1908 East St. Louis riot of 1917 Chicago race riot of 1919 Airport Homes race riots of 1946 Fernwood Park race riot of 1947 Englewood race riots of 1949 Cicero race riot of 1951 Cairo race riot of 1967

Other riots and unrest	Banditti of the Prairie, 1830s–1840s Lager Beer Riot, 1855 Charleston riot, 1864 Haymarket affair, 1886 Pullman Strike, 1894 Battle of Virden, 1898 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike Aldermen's Wars, 1916–1921 Memorial Day massacre of 1937 Division Street riots, 1966 1968 Chicago riots Democratic National Convention protest activity, 1968 Days of Rage Weatherman riot, 1969

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