Chicago Race Riots of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white and Black people that began on the South Side of Chicago, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919. During the riot, 38 people died (23 Black and 15 white and 537 injured). The violence ended after the National Guard stepped in. Deadly racial riots had occurred across the U.S. during 1919's “Red Summer.” The summer’s riots were fueled by simmering tensions and sparked by the stoning and drowning of a Black teenager named Eugene Williams. Williams had been on a raft with friends when they floated across the line dividing the White and Black beaches. George Stauber, a 24-year-old White man, began throwing rocks at the youths. One rock struck Williams, who fell off the raft and drowned. The police at the murder scene refused to arrest Stauber.