4th Annual Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Bronzeville Bike Tour
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Organic Oneness is a proud program partner and fiscal sponsor of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project and the annual bike tour in Bronzeville, Chicago. Check out our video of this year's CRR19 ride. On the bike tour, participants learn about the history of Eugene Williams and how his unjust racist killing sparked the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, also know as the Red Summer. Let's expose the truth of our history to unleash the potential of a just future. Also read the article by Word in Black where Dr. Franklin Cosey-Gay (Board Chair of Organic Oneness and Co-Director of CRR19) was interviewed about the reparation efforts of the Eugene Williams Scholarship. |
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3rd Annual Bronzeville Bike Tour: Sites related to the 1919 Chicago Race Riot
On Saturday, July 24th, 2021 approximately 300 people toured Bronzeville to learn about the history of Eugene Williams and how his unjust racist killing sparked the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
The program began at the Chicago Military Academy (3519 S Giles Ave, Chicago, IL 60653) and the bike/trolley tour highlighted key race riot sites as well as other locations showing the resilience of the Black community now known as Bronzeville including the Chicago Defender, Chicago Bee, Ida B. Wells, and Victory Monument.
Ain't She Sweet provided lunch while we witnessed the unveiling of artistic markers created by Project Fire youth to commemorate those killed during the race riots of 1919.
The program began at the Chicago Military Academy (3519 S Giles Ave, Chicago, IL 60653) and the bike/trolley tour highlighted key race riot sites as well as other locations showing the resilience of the Black community now known as Bronzeville including the Chicago Defender, Chicago Bee, Ida B. Wells, and Victory Monument.
Ain't She Sweet provided lunch while we witnessed the unveiling of artistic markers created by Project Fire youth to commemorate those killed during the race riots of 1919.
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2nd Annual Bronzeville Bike Tour: Site Related to the 1919 Chicago Race RiotOn Saturday, June 25, 2020 the Chicago Race Riot Commemoration Project (CRR19), Organic Oneness, and partnering organizations held the 2nd Annual Bike Tour show key race riots sites in Bronzeville, Bridgeport and Canaryville.
Approximately 200 participants learned about the history of Eugene Williams and how this unjust racial killing started the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 which was among the worst of the twenty-five such incidents, across the nation, that quickly came to be known as the Red Summer. Read more about this event from a Baha'i perspective. |
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Chicago Race Riots 1919Organic Oneness supported
Dr. Franklin Cosey-Gay's, Chair of OO, summer events on 1919 Chicago Race Riots to commemorate the 100th anniversary. |
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