The Red Summer of 1919: Crash Course Black American History #25
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Guy
These episodes are always like a punch in the stomach. The more factual detail given, the more you realize that the situation was worse than you thought, and the more difficult it is to watch. It never ceases to amaze me how we continue to underestimate the levels of indignity human beings are able to enthusiastically inflict on each other. It seems to me that this era of institutionalized lynching seems to be a key period in the development of the structural racism in local U. S. law enforcement and the consequent distrust that black communities in the U. S. have for the police. The fact that so much of this persists makes things seem so hopeless. That being said, what I'd find interesting, instructive, and and a morale boost if there are examples of communities in this era that were integrated and managed to consciously diffuse or avoid these pogroms ('race riots' to me implies two equal sides equally to blame) and worked hard to protect their black citizens under trying circumstances. I would say that this is where the most useful lessons of American history may lie.
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These episodes are always like a punch in the stomach. The more factual detail given, the more you realize that the situation was worse than you thought, and the more difficult it is to watch. It never ceases to amaze me how we continue to underestimate the levels of indignity human beings are able to enthusiastically inflict on each other. It seems to me that this era of institutionalized lynching seems to be a key period in the development of the structural racism in local U. S. law enforcement and the consequent distrust that black communities in the U. S. have for the police. The fact that so much of this persists makes things seem so hopeless. That being said, what I'd find interesting, instructive, and and a morale boost if there are examples of communities in this era that were integrated and managed to consciously diffuse or avoid these pogroms ('race riots' to me implies two equal sides equally to blame) and worked hard to protect their black citizens under trying circumstances. I would say that this is where the most useful lessons of American history may lie.
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Oxtocoatl
It's disgraceful how black veterans have been treated in the aftermath of all of America's wars. Thank you once again for excellent, if bone-chilling content. I shiver every time I hear Southern Trees play. Billie Holiday's voice perfectly captures the at the time completely mundane and every day horror of lynchings.
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It's disgraceful how black veterans have been treated in the aftermath of all of America's wars. Thank you once again for excellent, if bone-chilling content. I shiver every time I hear Southern Trees play. Billie Holiday's voice perfectly captures the at the time completely mundane and every day horror of lynchings.
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Sean
Many of us older folks had parents who grew up in the old south and heard about alot of this through them. my dads uncle was born in 1905, first free person from his maternal grandmother said of the family, he told my dad about alot of crap. and my father and other family elders passed it on to us in the 1970s.
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Many of us older folks had parents who grew up in the old south and heard about alot of this through them. my dads uncle was born in 1905, first free person from his maternal grandmother said of the family, he told my dad about alot of crap. and my father and other family elders passed it on to us in the 1970s.
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Michael
This episode was intense. Unrelated- I wonder if anyone has written a what if alternate history where Tulsa wasn't fire bombed in the Tulsa Race Massacre. What would the economic status of 20th century black Americans have been in that world?
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This episode was intense. Unrelated- I wonder if anyone has written a what if alternate history where Tulsa wasn't fire bombed in the Tulsa Race Massacre. What would the economic status of 20th century black Americans have been in that world?
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Nils
Why is this not known better in the international space? It is the first time I heard of those riots. As a German I will not judge because I don't want to be judged by the deeds of my grandparents. But man, at least it should not be forgotten!
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Why is this not known better in the international space? It is the first time I heard of those riots. As a German I will not judge because I don't want to be judged by the deeds of my grandparents. But man, at least it should not be forgotten!
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William
I learnt about the Red Summer in high school and I went to a public school in Puerto Rico. They might not teach that in the US-I can-t tell, but they do in other parts where it might not be even relevant (no offense coming from a Latino.
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I learnt about the Red Summer in high school and I went to a public school in Puerto Rico. They might not teach that in the US-I can-t tell, but they do in other parts where it might not be even relevant (no offense coming from a Latino.
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Joe
I would love an African history series.
Mainly to fill the gaps in our world historical knowledge.
But also to show black people living in the Americas or Europe that there-s more to their history than oppression and slavery.
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I would love an African history series.
Mainly to fill the gaps in our world historical knowledge.
But also to show black people living in the Americas or Europe that there-s more to their history than oppression and slavery.
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Tricia
Thanks for your enthusiastic recommendation of the writings of Frederick Douglass. I have finished the first volume of his biography, and it is riveting. Thanks, also, for your excellent, informative and much needed course.
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Thanks for your enthusiastic recommendation of the writings of Frederick Douglass. I have finished the first volume of his biography, and it is riveting. Thanks, also, for your excellent, informative and much needed course.
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Aiai
The period following WWI was the most violent period in race relations in US history. Elaine occured that year in Arkansas, and Tulsa was just 2 years away. Black WWI veterans were prime targets for lynching.
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The period following WWI was the most violent period in race relations in US history. Elaine occured that year in Arkansas, and Tulsa was just 2 years away. Black WWI veterans were prime targets for lynching.
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coldblindjack
This series is so necessary and amazing. I love John but sometimes he talks so quickly. Clint is a spoken word poet and I hang on everything he says! My American History students love him!
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This series is so necessary and amazing. I love John but sometimes he talks so quickly. Clint is a spoken word poet and I hang on everything he says! My American History students love him!
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