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Terrible and embarrassing. Vox did a short docu on it: https://youtu.be/x-ItsPBTFO0 https://youtu.be/x-ItsPBTFO0 Here are some other horrors that also don't ge
by anonsivalley652 7y ago
Terrible and embarrassing. Vox did a short docu on it: https://youtu.be/x-ItsPBTFO0 https://youtu.be/x-ItsPBTFO0
Here are some other horrors that also don't get much coverage:
1837 - Lovejoy - torch-carrying mob murdered him for being an abolitionist https://youtu.be/Clu4lD7A1t8 https://youtu.be/Clu4lD7A1t8
1857 - Mormons murdered non-Mormons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre
1863 - Draft Riots https://youtu.be/1bxnUh86RB8 https://youtu.be/1bxnUh86RB8
1866 - New Orleans massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_massacre_of_1866 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_massacre_of_1866
1871 - LA Chinese Massacre https://youtu.be/nauaIbOXaYo https://youtu.be/nauaIbOXaYo
1885 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre
1886 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
1919 - Red Summer (anti-black violence) https://youtu.be/Hy3a6PvIcxI https://youtu.be/Hy3a6PvIcxI
1923 - Rosewood massacre (anti-black violence and dispossession) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre
1925 - ~40,000 KKK members march in Washington, DC
https://youtu.be/BnI8SUQPB4k https://youtu.be/BnI8SUQPB4k
1932 - Bonus Army - see: [0]. Hoover ordered Patton and MacArthur to throw out destitute veterans, women and children from peacefully protesting in DC to get their promised war pay earlier. They charged them by force. It was more benign that a veterans's Occupy Wall St. Two veterans were shot to death, a boy was killed and a pregnant woman miscarried after the police stormed a hospital with tear gas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
1930's - Murphy Ranch / Silver Shirts - Nazis prepared to takeover America and round up the Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_Ranch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_Ranch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Legion_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Legion_of_America
References:
0. The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
EDIT: Here is a first-hand account of the conditions the Spanish empire brought to the Americas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Account_of_the_Destruction_of_the_Indies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Account_of_the_Destruc...