African American History, Events

THE NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOTS

he New York City Draft Riots remain today the single largest urban civilian insurrection in United States history. By the start of the Civil War in April 1861, New York City, New York Mayor Fernando Wood called for the city to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy, but the response from most New Yorkers was unenthusiastic.  Nonetheless, two years later when the U.S. government instituted the first military draft, anti-government sentiment particularly among the city’s large Irish-born population, grew quickly.  Continue reading THE NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOTS

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Revisit: NEWBURG, NEW YORK RACE RIOT (1899)

The 1899 Newburg, New York Race Riot was the culmination of months of racial tension between non-black and black brickyard workers after brickyard owners began hiring black workers to fill labor shortages.  Previously, local brickyards had hired Irish workers, then Hungarian, Italian, and Arab workers with only two brickyards in the city hiring black workers exclusively. Continue reading Revisit: NEWBURG, NEW YORK RACE RIOT (1899)

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Revisit: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ALASKA HIGHWAY, 1942: THE ROLE OF RACE IN THE FAR NORTH

he epic project that built the Alaska Highway and the Highway’s role in the defense of America during World War II is relatively well known. The racism that distorted and contaminated the project is not. Three segregated regiments worked on the Alcan. More than three thousand young black men faced up to the challenges that made the project epic, stood up to racism on top of that, and still delivered. And they received virtually no credit. Continue reading Revisit: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ALASKA HIGHWAY, 1942: THE ROLE OF RACE IN THE FAR NORTH

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