Commemorating the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Franklin Cosey-Gay, executive director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, and Peter Cole, author and history professor at Western Illinois University, will discuss the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 and the commemoration project that aims to place works of public art at the locations around the city where 38 persons, black and white, died during the riots.
 John Clegg, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, will discuss the 1919 race riot map that he and a team of collaborators have developed.

Sunday Nov. 24th at the Double Parlor.