CSPAN3 The Civil War March 22, 2015
Not just a southern thing. Omaha, nebraska. St. Louis, chicago, illinois. All erupted in race riots. Millions of workers, about 4 million workers are going to go on strike in 1919. And this wave of labor unrest then fed into this conservative mood. It seemed to spark hysteria. This is a time when we are dealing with the red scare. The red scare with the bolshevik revolution being so fresh, that americans now determined that perhaps bolshevism had come to the american shores and were undermining the capitalist system as we speak, right . So in this climate there is a very harsh reaction to labo...