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The Red Scare in Park Square (episode 172)
The Red Scare in Park Square (episode 172)
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51 minutes
Released:
Feb 16, 2020
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Draft riots are nothing new in Boston. A 1970 protest at Northeastern University over the draft and the Vietnam War devolved into a riot. In 1863, the North End was torn by a draft riot that ended with the militia firing a cannon at a crowd of mostly Irish-American men, women, and children. We even covered a violent 1747 riot in which Bostonians resisted forced impressment into the Royal Navy. What all those incidents have in common, though, is that the rioters were opposed to the draft. The riot on July 1, 1917 was different. In that case, rioters supported the draft and focused their violence on antiwar protesters.
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Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Feb 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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