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In the social disruption following WWI, as cities tried to absorb veterans into the labor market, there was social tension and anti-black sentiment.

In what became known as " Red Summer " of 1919, numerous industrial cities across the Midwest and North had severe race riots, in which ethnic whites led riots and killed numerous blacks, and thousands more were left homeless when property was destroyed, as in Chicago, Omaha, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia.

Empowered by service in WWI, in cities such as Chicago, blacks fought back.