History is Prologue: 1919 Race Riots
Fake News, Marxist Agitators, Gangsters Turned Politicians, & Election fraud
The media, communist agitators, and politically connected gangs played key roles during the 1919 race riots. The 2020 race agitators have improved upon the 20th century tactics by using philanthropy for funding and IIA social media operators for agitation.
Mass Immigration and Race
World War I halted immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe while increasing demand for Chicago's manufactured goods. Employers needed new laborers so, factory owners opened the doors to Black workers. Since the 1840s, African Americans have been moving out of the South and during The Great Migration (1916 - 1970) threw them squarely into the fight between White Americans and ethnic European immigrants over jobs and housing resources.
Southside of Chicago became a powder-keg just waiting for a match. That kindle would lead directly to the deadly Red Summer in 1919 during which racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the United States. The worst and most notably in Chicago, IL; Washington D.C.; and rural Elaine, AR.
Fake News Worsen Race Relations
Edward “Ned” McLean was the publisher and owner of The Washington Post from 1916-1933. McLean exaggerated or outright lied about every account of crime his newspaper reported, especially interracial crime. Salacious articles of Black men attacking White women and other newspapers followed suit.
“No less than seven such attacks were reported in his paper during the leadup to July 19. Subsequent revelations discredited all but one of the reports, but it didn’t matter. The Post’s competitors—even the more serious Washington Star—followed suit.”1
Communist Propaganda in the Black Community
In October of 1919, government sources provided The Times with evidence of Bolshevik propaganda in African American communities. This brought the account of communist propaganda in the black community into a larger context, since it was "paralleling the agitation that is being carried on in industrial centres of the North and West, where there are many alien laborers.”2
In article, "Reds Try to Stir Negroes to Revolt,” a federal official told The New York Times the racial violence resulted from "an agitation, which involves the I.W.W. [Industrial Workers of the World], Bolshevism and the worst features of other extreme radical movements." The Times described these publications as "doctrines of Lenin and Trotsky."3
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905. The philosophy of the IWW are described as "revolutionary industrial unionism", with ties to socialist, syndicalist, and anarchist labor movements. The IWW promotes the concept of "One Big Union", and promotes workers should be united as a social class to replace capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy.
He supported his claim with copies of African American publications that called for allying with leftist groups and praised the Soviet regime. The Times characterized the publications as "vicious and apparently well financed," mentioned "certain factions of the radical Socialist elements," reported in the article, "Reds Try to Stir Negroes to Revolt". In late 1919, Oklahoma's Daily Ardmoreite published a piece "Evidence Found Of Negro Society That Brought On Rioting.”4
By communist flooding African American communities with Soviet propaganda, it created more racial tension and mistrust.
Gangsters as Political Agitators
The gangs involved in the 1919 Chicago race riots were the Irish gang Ragen's Colts, the Murderers, and the Hamburgs, of which a 17 year old Richard J. Daley (future Chicago mayor) was a member.
Mayor Richard Daley - Press Conference On The Riots At The Democratic Convention: “Gentleman, get the thing straight once and for all, the policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policemen is there to preserve disorder.”
“In the early years of the 20th Century, Irish politicians, in their bid to build a Chicago machine, formed "Social Athletic Clubs" modeled after the ones organized by Tammany Hall. These gangs of adolescents and young adults were mainly used to help win elections by ‘any means necessary.’"5
(Pictured above: Ragen’s Colts hanging the anti-Catholic KKK in effigy)
Ragen’s Colts disguised themselves in blackface while attacking ethnic European communities in the Southside of Chicago.
“During the 1919 race riot, the blackface arson came in response to the lack of interest among Eastern European immigrants in brutalizing blacks. Some Poles argued that the riot was a conflict between blacks and whites, with Poles abstaining because they belonged to neither group. Indeed the Poles and Lithuanians might well have hated each other more than either group hated African Americans.”6
The 1922 Race Relations Commission stated: "Gangs and their activities were an important factor throughout the riot. But for them it is doubtful if the riot would have gone beyond the first clash."7
Gangsters and Politicians
Ragen’s Colts was founded by Cook County Commissioner Frank Ragen and his brother James Ragen. Frank Ragen hired out members of the gang to Chicago Democrat politicians for election fraud. Thanks to the gang's activities and increased votes by recent immigrants, the Democratic Party gained control over the Chicago City Council and Illinois legislature. By the end of the decade, the gang had financed careers of hundreds of Chicago city officials, including prominent aldermen, police chiefs, and city treasurers, as well as Ragen himself. James Ragen was a veteran of the “Chicago circulation wars" during the 1910s and worked under Moses Annenberg of the Jewish Mob. By the early 1930s, Ragen had begun overseeing the day to day operations for the Nationwide News Service and the sole distributors of racetrack and other gambling results nationwide. Al Capone hired the Colts as enforcers and were eventually absorbed into the organization following the establishment of the National Crime Syndicate. in 1932, many members would later become top leaders of the Chicago Outfit. Several members of Ragen's Colts would leave to form the NFL football team the Chicago Maroons, later known as the Chicago Cardinals, in 1920.
Freemasons and the Mafia:
The Hegalian Solution to the 1919 Race Riots
They create the problem, the public reacts, then they offer their solution. As a result of these riots, what once was an imaginary line became codified in law as it was determined that the only real way to prevent this from happening again was to segregate the races. Chicago was the most segregated city in the United States. It not only separated people by race but also by ethnicty: Chinatown, Polonia Triangle, Little Italy, and Greektown.
The Second International Eugenics Congress was originally slated for New York in 1915, but it was postponed until 1921. The American Eugenics Society was formed a year later in 1922. Also in 1921, Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. These eugenicists would influence Adolph Hitler and his Nazi race policies against Jews, Poles, Roma, and others.
(Pictured above: HOLC Map of Chicago)
In 1933, The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) was a government-sponsored corporation created as part of the New Deal by the Roosevelt administration. The HOLC maps invented redlining which assess credit-worthiness were color-coded by mortgage security risk with majority African-Americans, Slavs, and Italian areas disproportionately likely to be marked in red indicating designation as "hazardous."
It would later be exposed that FDR was surrounded by the communist Silvermaster Spy Ring. The Venona Project would later prove Soviet spies worked in the State Department, Treasury, Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and even the White House. Harry Dexter White, a senior U.S. Treasury official, worked closely with the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. was a Soviet spy. He also helped create the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Everything that we are experiencing today has been finely honed over a century. These people do not believe in any form of democracy. They believe they have every right to dictate our lives through lies and deceit. In a multiethnic country like the United States, it is very easy to pick at old wounds to cause division and pit one group against another. I grew up in the Southside of Chicago among the Polish, Latino, and Black communities. I have a lot of Polish-Mexican family members and some African American as well. My husband, who I met in the Army almost 20 years ago, is also Tejano (Mexican-American of Texas descent). His cousins are also part Polish and Black. Instead of focusing on our differences, we see the beauty in our similarities.
On a hilarious note, we don’t have any Lithuanians in the family. So, I guess the Poles really did hate them more than anyone else.
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Associations: From the Masons to the Mob
“Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman discuss the popularity of the Freemasons and other secret clubs among the early national elite, the growth of political machines like Tammany Hall during the 1800s, and the arrival and growth of organized crime surrounding Prohibition.”
Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity by David R. Roediger 2005
“Irish American gangs played a central role in attempting to extend the bloodshed. Members of Ragen's Colts, one of the leading gangs, disguised themselves in blackface in order to set fire to Polish and Lithuanian neighborhoods in the Back of the Yards area. Their hope was to draw the immigrant population into bloody reprisals against African Americans.”
The Red Summer of 1919 updated Aug 6, 2020
“Did you know? In the summer of 1919, Richard J. Daley, who served as Chicago's powerful mayor from 1955 until his death in 1976, was a 17-year-old member of an Irish-American organization called the Hamburg Athletic Club. Though an investigation later identified the club among the instigators of the rioting, Daley and his supporters never admitted that he participated in the violence.”
Lost Riot by Michael Schaffer Apr 3, 1998
“In those days, the Post was under the control of an owner named Ned McLean. Invariably described by historians as a “playboy,” McLean was during the summer of 1919 on the warpath against District of Columbia Commissioner Louis Brownlow and his police chief, Raymond Pullman. An anti-Prohibitionist, McLean believed, among other things, that the police were spending too much time busting drinkers and too little time fighting criminals—especially black ones.
Looking to discredit the local leadership, McLean played up every possible account of crime, real or imagined. And in the culture of early-20th-century Washington, no crime was as salacious as a black attack on a white woman. No less than seven such attacks were reported in his paper during the leadup to July 19. Subsequent revelations discredited all but one of the reports, but it didn’t matter. The Post’s competitors—even the more serious Washington Star—followed suit.
The reports mesmerized the city. People demanded action. Even some black leaders waxed outraged.”
Ragen's Colts and Harry Madigan by Elaine McIntyre Beaudoin Nov 10, 2011
Great Migration by James Grossman 2005
“Chicago attracted slightly more than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South during these decades. Before this migration, African Americans constituted 2 percent of Chicago's population; by 1970, they were 33 percent.”
Puparo's Gangland History of the Chicago Boroughs by Gansters Inc. Sep 25, 2013
The Gangster and the Politician PDF
The Gangs of . . . by John Hagedorn Jan 19, 2003
Ragen's Colts and the Race Riots
The History of the Race Wire Service Part II by Allan May Oct 14, 2009
“The rise of the Annenbergs. The great Annenberg publishing dynasty that controlled the Daily Racing Form, The Philadelphia Inquirer and TV Guide for decades produced the fortune that allowed Walter Annenberg to establish and endow the prestigious M. L. Annenberg Schools of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California in honor of his disgraced father, a major player in Capone’s underworld.”
Ragen's Colts- Chicago, The Early Years Nov 30, 2006
“Originally established as an athletic club, the Ragen's Athletic and Benevolent Association was soon dominated by team pitcher Frank Ragen eventually hiring the club out to Chicago Democrat politicians for election fraud. The Democratic Party soon gained control over the Chicago City Council and Illinois legislature due to the gangs activities. The gang quickly expanded numbering 160 members by 1902 and 2,000 by 1908 earning the motto "Hit Me and You Hit 2,000". By the end of the decade the gang had financed the careers of hundreds of city officials including prominent alderman, police chiefs, and city treasurers including gang leader Frank Ragen himself who later became Chicago police commissioner. By 1920 many members of the gang had become prominent criminals and gunmen such as William "Gunner" McPadden, Harry Madigan, Joseph "Dynamite" Brooks, Danny McFall, Hughey "Stubby" McGovern, Davy "Yiddles" Miller, and Ralph Sheldon.”
Chapter 2 – John McCain and Organized Crime in Arizona
“This chapter opens with a rhyme comes from Assistant Treasury Secretary Elliott Wadsworth and refers to the fact that the law that made Prohibition a reality on January 16, 1920 was authored by Minnesota Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. Wadsworth understood that, in practical terms, the Volstead Act capitalized organized crime, established a continent-wide distribution network for criminal activities, and identified a network of corrupt politicians for future operations.”
When the Solution Becomes the Problem: The Legacy of the 1919 Race Riots Jul 26, 2019
“As a result of these riots, what once was an imaginary line became codified in law as it was determined that the only real way to prevent this from happening again was to segregate the races. Though this separation is no longer mandated by our government, it continues to shape Chicago 100 years later. The “solution” of segregation was inspired by racism and fueled a system of inequity that continues today.”