History of the United States II / Unit 12 USH2 1678 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Riots of 1943
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The idea
In nineteen forty-three riots broke out in Mobile, Beaumont, Harlem and Detroit, as White residents met new Black neighbours and co-workers with sometimes deadly violence.
In practice
Detroit, the bloodiest, where twenty-five Black and nine white Americans died, the Yawp records.
Where people slip
Unit eight's Red Summer of nineteen nineteen followed the first migration; these riots followed the second.
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