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in workingclasscalendar@lemmy.world•NYC Draft Riots (1863) The NYC Draft Riots began on this day in 1863, the culmination of racist white anger and working-class discontent over new conscription laws, passed to bolster the ongoing...

Fully agree. I would add that racist behaviours in racialized ethnicities (as the Irish people in NY at that time) is not, historically, extraordinary.

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Emmett Till (1941 - 1955) Emmett Till, born on this day in 1941, was a black child tortured and lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi at 14 years old. His killers sold the story of how they...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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Kristallnacht (1938) Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, was an anti-Semitic pogrom against Jewish people that began on this day in 1938, carried out by the Sturmabteilung,...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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Justice for Janitors Strikers Attacked (1990) On this day in 1990, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) attacked immigrant janitors who were striking for the right to organize in Century City,...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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Danish General Strike (1998) On this day in 1998, more than 500,000 Danish workers, one fifth of the entire workforce, walked off the job in a general strike, demanding a 35-hour work-week, an...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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St. Louis Race Massacre (1917) On this day in 1917, white mobs in East St. Louis began indiscriminately killing black people, burning down homes with the families trapped inside, killing more than...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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MOVE Bombing (1985) On this day in 1985, Philadelphia police bombed a home occupied by the black liberation group MOVE and let the fire burn out of control - "let the fire burn" - killing five...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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Joycelyn Elders (1933 - ) Dr. Joycelyn Elders, born on this day in 1933, is an American pediatrician who became the first black Surgeon General of the U.S. in 1993. She was fired by President...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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Eric Garner Murdered by NYPD (2014) On this day in 2014, Eric Garner was murdered by the NYPD, choked to death after police suspected him of selling loose cigarettes. Garner said "I can't breathe"...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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Maceo Snipes Shot After Voting (1946) On this day in 1946, Maceo Snipes, the first black person to vote in Georgia's Taylor County, was shot by white supremacists, dying after doctors refused to...(stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)

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