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Dec 2, 2009 · Crowds gathered by the 29th Street Beach in Chicago after the drowning death of Eugene Williams, an African American teenager who had crossed an imaginary boundary in the water separating blacks...
Jul 27, 2020 · One hundred and one years ago today, the Chicago Race Riot began with the murder of Eugene Williams and the failure of law enforcement to hold those responsible for his death accountable. On Sunday, July 27, 1919, thousands of Chicagoans sought relief from the brutal heat on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Jun 2, 2020 · On Sunday, July 27, Eugene Williams, a 17-year-old black youth, accidentally drifted into an area of water that was deemed to be for “whites only.” One white beachgoer, indignant, began hurling rocks at Williams, causing the teen to drown.
On Sunday, July 27, 1919, an unusually hot summer day, Black seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams and four of his friends took a homemade wooden raft out into Lake Michigan on the South Side. They pushed off from 26th Street beach, the only beach in the city reserved for Black beachgoers and swimmers.
Feb 18, 2021 · The Chicago race riot began at the 29th Street Beach after the drowning of Eugene Williams, a Black teenager who had crossed an invisible line in the water separating Black people from white ...
Eugene Williams, whose death sparked the deadly riots, originally was from Georgia, born March 10, 1902. In his article “Searching for Eugene Williams,” Robert Loerzel details his exhaustive search for Williams’s origins and his life leading up to his death.
On July 27, 1919, Eugene Williams, a Black teenager, drowned in Lake Michigan after being stoned by white people because he accidently drifted into waters designated for “whites only,” and thus violated the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches.
