Every day this year brings another 150thanniversary of an epochal Civil War event, some more important than others. A big one that’s getting little attention is the days-long New York City Draft Riots, when hundreds of furious Irish immigrants took to the streets to protest Civil War conscription, which began July 13, 1863.
Against the backdrop of mostly peaceful protests against the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, many people are remembering the history of white rage, and white race riots — Tulsa, Okla., Rosewood, Fla. — but I’ve seen no one mention the draft riots, though the Zimmerman verdict came down on the 150th anniversary of their start.With the ludicrous Newt Gingrich (who claims to be a historian) insisting the peaceful Trayvon Martin protesters were “prepared to be a lynch mob,” it’s worth remembering that devastating eruption of white mob violence 150 years earlier, when at least 11 black men were actually lynched.
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As I was growing up, at the height of the civil rights movement, my father made sure I saw commonalities in the histories of poor Irish immigrants and African-Americans. Yet as my family watched the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles go up in flames on the evening news in August 1965, my civil-rights-liberal father missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to point out a direct but little-known parallel between the black and the Irish-immigrant poor: Before Watts, the largest domestic insurrection in American history had been the awful Draft Riots.
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