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Community Community Best Buddies Big Ben, one Qatar, a non- of London’s P7 profitable P16 most famous organisation under landmarks, is spending Shaff allah Centre wins its 160th birthday International Program covered in scaff olding Award for 2018-19. and plastic sheeting. Monday, July 29, 2019 Dhul-Qa’da 26, 1440 AH Doha today: 32 0 - 380 COVER STORY RaceRace riotsriots RECALL: Violence during the 1919 Chicago race riots. How a black boy’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago. P4-5 HOLLYWOOD BOLLYWOOD How iconic Sharon Tate Real-life incidents are transfi xed Hollywood. the latest tinsel fl avour Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT Axel 2 DIRECTION: Leo Lee CAST: Dian Tao, Zhengxiang Li, Chuanying Li, Xiaobing Wang, Guo Yifeng, Jiaojiao Han, Xiaoqing Mei, Qianjing Zhao, Qi Ye, Wu Lei SYNOPSIS: A young boy becomes an unlikely hero when he sets out on an adventure-fi lled quest to fi nd the legendary Bonta oasis. 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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY 100 years ago, in Chicago The cataclysmic event that left 38 people dead (23 black and 15 white), over 500 injured and hundreds homeless due to arson influenced many of the city’s leaders who would face issues about race relations for decades, writes William Lee BLAST FROM THE PAST: An edition of The Chicago Defender captures the fragility of the time. ne hundred years ago, 7-year-old ever seen and stood at the window, and I heard Juanita Mitchell should have been him say ‘Here they come,’” Mitchell, now 107, playing with other children in the recently recalled at the suburban Flossmoor streets during that summer’s heat home she shares with her daughter. “It meant wave and getting to know her new the white folks was coming up 35th Street and Ohome on Chicago’s South Side. that the riot was going to begin.” You had a situation that She and her younger sister, Iona, had just Many details about one of the city’s worst moved with their mother into their great- weeks are not widely known. was ready to explode. Many uncle’s home near the corner of 35th Street and The 1919 riots “didn’t seem to make it into Giles Avenue, the heart of the city’s expanding the timeline alongside titanic stories about white Chicagoans felt African black community where new faces were Fort Dearborn, Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable, Americans had been getting showing up daily and thousands of families the World’s Columbian Exposition, the 1968 were hoping to fi nd the jobs and dignity absent riot, Richard J. Daley, or Harold Washington,” out of their place. So they in the Jim Crow South. wrote Eve Ewing in her book of poetry 1919. In But instead, Mitchell and other relatives fact, only a small marker on the beach near the used this opportunity to were trapped inside a stifl ing upstairs room, spot where 17-year-old Eugene Williams was sometimes huddled behind a piano, as angry murdered commemorates the days of rioting remind them of their place mobs of young white men and boys roamed the that followed. in a subordinate and so-called black belt looking to maim, kill or But the cataclysmic event that left 38 people set fi res. dead (23 black and 15 white), more than 500 second-class position Mitchell — one of the last living injured and hundreds homeless due to arson ‘ eyewitnesses to Chicago’s most violent racial infl uenced many of the city’s leaders who confl ict that began on July 27, 1919 — still would face issues about race relations for recalls her great-uncle Cecil’s signal that white decades.