Eugene！Help!Somebody help!

尤金，救命，快来人啊

By the time they get Eugene Williams back to the beach,he's dead.

他们将尤金·威廉斯拖回沙滩时，他已经死了

The police officer on duty is Daniel Callahan.

当值的警员名叫丹尼尔·卡拉汉

He refuses to arrest the white man who threw the fatal rock.,but arrests a black man instead.

他拒绝逮捕行凶的白人，反而抓走了一个黑人

This is how the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 begins.

就此引发了1919年芝加哥种族暴动

Eight bloody days.500 wounded.38 die...23 of them black.

腥风血雨的8天中，500人受伤，38人丧命，其中有23名黑人

But the violence is just beginning.

但暴力冲突才刚刚开始

Riots erupt in 24 more cities across America.

骚乱在美国24座其他城市接连爆发

It's called "The Red Summer."

史称"血腥之夏"

Many found that the promised land was not the promise they thought.

许多黑人开始意识到"应许之地"并非为他们而设

The North was better than the South,but there was not the land of milk and honey.

北方的确比南方好但绝非"流奶与蜜之地"[语出《圣经》]

The divide separating black and white widens.

黑白种族之间的分裂日益加剧

Ghettos expand.Harlem in New York.Paradise Valley in Detroit.The Hill District in Pittsburgh.In Chicago, the South Side.

贫民窟不断扩张，纽约的哈勒姆，底特律的天堂谷，匹兹堡的希尔区，芝加哥的南区

Separate, but not equal.

各自为政，但并不平等

Black Americans are on the outside looking in.

美国黑人被排斥在主流社会之外

But black neighborhoods also mean black majorities,and in America, majority means power

但大量的黑人人口也意味着黑人占大多数，而在美国人多就是力量

In 1928,voters on Chicago's South Side elect Oscar De Priest,the first black congressman in the North.

1928年，芝加哥南区选民选举奥斯卡·德普里斯特为北方首位黑人国会议员

80 years later, another Chicago resident becomes the nation's first black president.

80年后，另一位芝加哥居民当选美国首位黑人总统