The chicago race riots of 1919 happened because white people were scared of african americans are polluting the white neighborhood, along with african americans got more confident because of ww1, and african americans started losing jobs to the returning white soldiers. The first reason why the chicago race riots started was because people that white people didn't want african americans moving into the white neighborhood from the “black belt” for example in (Doc C) it says “whites who are afraid that blacks will move out of the black belt and into white neighborhoods have formed the property owners association to keep black out of white neighborhoods.” this proves that the whites did not want them to move into the white neighborhood. The second