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July 27th

2 events recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1919
    The Record

    Red Summer: Chicago race riot

    White swimmers stone seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams to death off a Chicago beach after he drifts past the unmarked color line in Lake Michigan. Thirteen days of mob violence leave thirty-eight dead and 537 injured. It is the deadliest episode of the Red Summer, during which white mobs attack Black residents in more than three dozen American cities.

  2. 2004
    The Rise

    Barack Obama delivers the DNC keynote

    Illinois state senator Barack Obama, then a candidate for the U.S. Senate, delivers the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Roughly 9.1 million people watch. Within weeks he wins his Senate race in a thirty-four-point landslide and begins the run that produces the 2008 presidential campaign.

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