Angry Negroes Blast Harmony in Housing Plan
Bolt Meeting at Realty Board with Threats to Fight
Negro Owner of Flat House to War Back
Eugene F. Manns—Property in Morgan Park
Court Blocks Negro Invasion
Injunction to Halt Move until Improvements Are Put In
Race Segregation Is Rent Booster's Aim
Owners Hope to Prevent Encroachments of Either Colored or White Citizens
Try to Keep Negro Out of Black Belt
Colored Organizations Do Not Want Newcomers to Go to Old District
Urge Race Segregation Law
Members of Real Estate Board to Move to Save South Side
Take Up Housing of Negroes
Two White and Two Colored Realty Dealers Consider the Problem
The migration.—The migration provided a subject of sufficient interest to stimulate a number of articles. Hordes of illiterate and impecunious Negroes were pouring into the city, according to some reports, at the rate of forty carloads a day; they brought smallpox and low living standards, imperiled health, and created a dangerous problem for the city. The combined estimates from day to day in the press would give a number of arrivals in Chicago, equal to or even more than the migration to the entire North. Thus the articles ran:
Committee to Deal with Negro Influx
Body Formed to Solve Problems Due to Migration to Chicago from South
Work Out Plans for Migrating Negroes
Influx from the South Cared For by the Urban League and Other Societies