Help w/ chicago racial riots 1919 (guidelines, teachers, cities)

[ChicagoChic_99]

I have my topic: Chicago racial riots in 1919.

My thesis: How did the rioting in chicago influence the riots in other U.S. cities?

My problem: I can't get the information i need on my thesis.

If someone can give me information or help me in any way, I'd appreciate it. It's not that research is a huge problem, but i need to turn in 10 pages of research a day, so it's hard getting enough of what my teacher wants.

I got information from jazzagechicago.org and chicagohistory.org, and a few other sites, just so i'm not getting info i already have. Books are great too, by the way, if anyone can recommend a book, that'd be helpfull too.

thanks

~ChicagoChic_99

[ahava]

Have you tried going to the library and searching for books about the Chicago riots? As a teacher I can tell you that teachers don't like to see students only use internet sources, and non-academic ones at that. Also, your teacher may have different guidelines, but generally a thesis is a statement, not a question. You would choose a side - either the Chicago riots did or did not influence the riots in other cities - and then use research in your paper that supports your position.

[Avengerfire]

The riots were happening all over the country in the same time period, not just Chicago. As far as I know it did not start in Chicago. You must look at the aspect of many southern Blacks that moved North for jobs during and right after WW1. When the vets(almost entirely White) came back and could not find jobs they were angry. The roots of the riots had less to do with race than economics. Check into it. :-)

Years before, the Anglo-Saxons and Germanics hated the Irish just as much as they grew to hate Blacks in the North in the WW1 era.