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Specifically, African Americans and Jewish Americans rioting against each other.

2007-12-25 12:09:01 · 2 answers · asked by Shellshock 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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Jewish Americans were the targets of most of the inner city 60's era riots; especially Watts, Detroit and Philadelphia.

2007-12-26 04:54:41 · answer #1 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 1 0

The New York draft riots of 1863. Although not a specific African American vs. Jew riot, both races played a significant part against each other during this time. After President Lincoln's initial call for volunteers from the Union to fight the Civil War, the volunteers were less forthcoming when the dead were arriving home in droves and the north was losing significant battles.President Lincoln instituted the first draft of civilians into the military for the U.S>.Following the battle of Gettysburg and the high water mark of southern ventures into the north, the public was running scared, people did not want to be forced into service to fight a war that many were beginning to percieve as one to free the black man, and the poor were the losers. A drafted man could offer a substitute in his place if he paid the government $300, so the wealthy northern men, of which many were Jewish businessmen, could get out of service, but the poor immigrants, laborers, and other men could not get out and were forced to fight. African Americans were precluded from manditory service, because at that time in 1863, blacks were not allowed widespread service, with a few exceptions such as Massachucetts state volunteers such as the 54th and 55th Mass Volunteer Infantry Regiments (who were mostly freedmen from other states). The draft riots were a dark period where dozens of black men were lynched and hung from light posts, and amongst the lynchers were men of various ethnicity, including Jews and others.

2007-12-25 22:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by ross4thus 3 · 0 0

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