Chicago and elsewhere. reported: In the absence of some radical solution. the kind of racial dynamite being built up In the Negro slums is only too clear. Take West Garfield Park. the Chicago area where 67 people were injured Thursday and Friday nights in Negro rioting and looting. The neighborhood as recently as 1960 was estimated to be only 19 percent Negro. but it has become a center of Negro immigrants from the South and today the population is believed to be nearly 85 percent Negro. Chalmers Roberts. in a Washington Post article written from Los Angeles. yesterday told us: The story of the riots in the Los Angeles area is the story of expectations frustrated. of hope denied. Denied specifically to the small town and southern Negro caught in an urban world he does not understand and whose fruits he cannot share.
Identified stereotypes
Negro immigrants are stereotyped as causing racial tension and crime.