The story of 14-year-old Eugene Williams, who was stoned to death in Chicago in 1919 after his raft drifted into a "white" beach area, is presented as a suppressed lynching. The hosts argue that Black publications at the time downplayed the event to maintain the propaganda that the North was a safe haven compared to the South. This migration is framed as a strategic redistribution of Black people that diluted their concentrated voting power in the South.


