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U.S. History 1877-Present 2: Racism and Riots 1224 Views


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There were all kinds of riots before and during the U.S. Civil War. Except for laugh riots...and unfortunately those are the only ones we support.

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00:04

Let's talk about northern racism because yeah that's a thing the [Man gasping at Northern racism]

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South definitely did not have the monopoly on racist sentiment not so fun

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fact the North was the birthplace of segregation, not the south

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in cities it was the worst blacks and whites were kept separate in northern [Black man at train station]

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omnibus as stagecoaches rail ray cars steamboats theaters and lecture halls

00:29

and drinking fountains too seriously sometimes black people were just

00:33

excluded all together like a you know no girls allowed boys club house only a [Boys at a park]

00:36

whole lot meaner and more serious in 1860 only five northern states allowed

00:41

blacks to vote on equal terms with whites and big surprise surprise these states

00:46

had very small black populations race riots even took place and these riots [Newspaper of race riots]

00:51

weren't so much black people writing for equal rights as they were white people

00:56

viciously attacking black people for well for existing...From 1832 to 1849 five

01:03

riots happened alone in Philadelphia the city's population had been swelling with [Black people in groups in Philadelphia]

01:07

blacks and many white Philadelphians weren't cool with giving blacks their

01:12

half of a cheesesteak in 1829 Cincinnati white's also did some rioting on their

01:17

own twice that year huge mobs of around 300 whites attacked black neighborhoods [images of white mobs attacking black people]

01:22

and the police and Mayor did nothing to stop it it was their bingo night or

01:27

something like that yeah....... well then of course there were the famous draft riots

01:33

of New York City this went down in 1863 when primarily Irish immigrants got [Irish immigrant angry with uncle sam poster]

01:38

ticked about being drafted for the Civil War well first they were mad because

01:42

rich guys could buy their way out of fighting the second they were mad [Man giving money to Uncle Sam]

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because they didn't see any reason to die for the freedom of black people who

01:50

they kind of hated anyway the riot got really racist really fast with blacks

01:55

being beaten in the streets and even black orphans homes being attacked at

01:58

the end of the draft riots 119 people were dead so far this was actually the

02:03

biggest insurrection in US history besides a civil war itself let's hope we [A series of gravestones]

02:07

don't beat that record.... well the North also has some claim to

02:11

shoulder when it comes to the failure of reconstruction to protect the rights of

02:14

freed blacks, no doubt southern white terrorism and violence were mostly to

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blame not to mention the subsequent takeover by the so-called Redeemers but [Men wearing KKK costumes and Redeemer waving flag]

02:23

this counter Rev was only able to happen because of northerners going... we've

02:28

done enough the Freedmen's Bureau was seriously understaffed and underfunded

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everybody knew about it but it was like....over all white

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northerners eventually lost interest in enforcing the policies of the Radical [North America with a sleeping emoji]

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Republicans and allowed southern Democrat Redeemers to rebuild the south

02:45

the way they wanted which was kind of like Luke Skywalker saying you know what

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Emperor Palpatine the Empire wasn't so bad have at it....[Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader appear together]

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