The Boston Globe, 2018, “Boston’s Schools are Becoming Resegregated”. Massachusetts Historical Society: “Sarah C.Archives and Public History, University of Massachusetts Boston, Sarah Roberts Smithsonian Museum, “Separate is Never Equal: In Pursuit of Equality”. Digital Public Library: Busing and Desegregation in Boston *.New York Historical Society, History Detectives: “Blast from the Past: The New York City Draft Riots”.Smithsonian Magazine: “The Civil War Draft Riots Brought Terror to New York’s Streets”.The New York Times: “Did FIrefighters Start or End the 1863 Draft Riots - or Both?”.The New York TImes: “Black New York and the Draft Riots”įor even more information about the New York Draft Riots, we recommend the following resources:.The Washington Post: “The New York Draft Riots of 1863”.Links with an asterisk provide curricular ideas, specifically.

These resources may also help you connect the riots with other important historical and contemporary events. Here are some primary and secondary sources we found useful in better understanding the 1863 Draft Riots. These questions invited us to do more research. How do people respond to systemic injustices? Why and how do social protests occur, and why do people take to the streets? How are different community protests characterized and what are the implications? What language, or terms, are used by media outlets to characterize these movements? How do these characterizations inform societal responses or opinions? As we read about the targeting and killing of different groups of people including “blacks of all classes” (p.25) during the Riots, we thought about the many ways Black people are continually targeted. We saw the connections between white people’s anger and violence toward Black people in 1863 and what is happening now in 2020, including the tragic and terrorizing killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among so many others. We found ourselves continuing to ask questions about the Lyons family and the experiences of Black families in New York City during the Draft Riots of 1863.

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