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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]
- 00:09
South definitely did not have the monopoly on racist sentiment not so fun
- 00:14
fact the North was the birthplace of segregation, not the south
- 00:19
in cities it was the worst blacks and whites were kept separate in northern [Black man at train station]
- 00:24
omnibus as stagecoaches rail ray cars steamboats theaters and lecture halls
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- 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]
- 01:46
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
- 02:18
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
- 02:32
everybody knew about it but it was like....over all white
- 02:37
northerners eventually lost interest in enforcing the policies of the Radical [North America with a sleeping emoji]
- 02:40
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
- 02:50
Emperor Palpatine the Empire wasn't so bad have at it....[Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader appear together]
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