At the same time, as part of the Great Migration, black Americans were moving from the South to urban manufacturing towns in the Northeast and Midwest.

[3] The result was a series of attacks by white workers on black strikebreakers throughout the US, including in Chicago's stockyards and in the ironworks at Syracuse.

Hoping to break the strike plant owners brought in black replacement workers.

At least three white men, Leon Martin, Walinty Winekowski, and Stanislaus Anvziewski, were arrested.

The Summer consisted of terrorist attacks on black communities, and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties.