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Eugene！Help!Somebody help!
尤金，救命，快來人啊
By the time they get Eugene Williams back to the beach,he's dead.
他們將尤金·威廉斯拖回沙灘時，他已經死了
The police officer on duty is Daniel Callahan.
當值的警員名叫丹尼爾·卡拉漢
He refuses to arrest the white man who threw the fatal rock.,but arrests a black man instead.
他拒絕逮捕行兇的白人，反而抓走了一個黑人
This is how the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 begins.
就此引發了1919年芝加哥種族暴動
Eight bloody days.500 wounded.38 die...23 of them black.
腥風血雨的8天中，500人受傷，38人喪命，其中有23名黑人
But the violence is just beginning.
但暴力沖突才剛剛開始
Riots erupt in 24 more cities across America.
騷亂在美國24座其他城市接連爆發
It's called "The Red Summer."
史稱"血腥之夏"
Many found that the promised land was not the promise they thought.
許多黑人開始意識到"應許之地"并非為他們而設
The North was better than the South,but there was not the land of milk and honey.
北方的確比南方好但絕非"流奶與蜜之地"[語出《圣經》]
The divide separating black and white widens.
黑白種族之間的分裂日益加劇
Ghettos expand.Harlem in New York.Paradise Valley in Detroit.The Hill District in Pittsburgh.In Chicago, the South Side.
貧民窟不斷擴張，紐約的哈勒姆，底特律的天堂谷，匹茲堡的希爾區，芝加哥的南區
Separate, but not equal.
各自為政，但并不平等
Black Americans are on the outside looking in.
美國黑人被排斥在主流社會之外
But black neighborhoods also mean black majorities,and in America, majority means power
但大量的黑人人口也意味著黑人占大多數，而在美國人多就是力量
In 1928,voters on Chicago's South Side elect Oscar De Priest,the first black congressman in the North.
1928年，芝加哥南區選民選舉奧斯卡·德普里斯特為北方首位黑人國會議員
80 years later, another Chicago resident becomes the nation's first black president.
80年后，另一位芝加哥居民當選美國首位黑人總統
