“White mobs attacked isolated blacks. Blacks attacked isolated whites. John Mills, a black Stockyards worker, was riding home when a mob stopped his streetcar and beat him to death. Casmero Lazeroni, a white peddler, was pulled from his horse-drawn wagon and stabbed to death. Thirty-eight people died--23 blacks and 15 whites.” Each of these individuals were innocent. They had done nothing wrong. They were just simply living their own life. Racism can have a huge effect on our society. The gangs and mobs that broke out after the incident of the young black man’s death impacted our society as a whole. Not in a positive way, but a negative way. Many lives were lost in the year of 1919. Mobs and gangs didn’t attack the ones that have harmed our society. Instead they decide to kill the ones who have done no harm such as John Mills and Casmero
“White mobs attacked isolated blacks. Blacks attacked isolated whites. John Mills, a black Stockyards worker, was riding home when a mob stopped his streetcar and beat him to death. Casmero Lazeroni, a white peddler, was pulled from his horse-drawn wagon and stabbed to death. Thirty-eight people died--23 blacks and 15 whites.” Each of these individuals were innocent. They had done nothing wrong. They were just simply living their own life. Racism can have a huge effect on our society. The gangs and mobs that broke out after the incident of the young black man’s death impacted our society as a whole. Not in a positive way, but a negative way. Many lives were lost in the year of 1919. Mobs and gangs didn’t attack the ones that have harmed our society. Instead they decide to kill the ones who have done no harm such as John Mills and Casmero