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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

1866 MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

One violent event, captured in the best media technologies of its time and brought to American living parlors, completely changed American politics during the Reconstruction period. A convention at the stately Mechanics' Institute in New Orleans, determined to create a new constitution where all races could vote, was forcefully ended by police in what investigators could only describe as a massacre.  We discuss the event, the reasons behind it, and how it affected political power for ten years.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:07.2

You know what that is.

0:10.0

An ice cold beer.

0:11.8

What's different?

0:14.4

It's Budweiser.

0:16.7

A perfect beer for party season.

0:22.6

Best enjoyed with your best butts.

0:24.6

Cheers to that.

0:26.6

Budweiser, like no other.

0:29.6

Please drink responsibly.

0:31.6

For the facts, visit drinkaware.co.

0:33.6

com.

0:34.6

It was an absolute massacre.

0:46.2

Outnumbered, frightened people with no escape, jumping out windows, climbing over fences, barricading doors.

0:51.6

We see it starkly, in bold lines, an incredible detail.

0:53.1

It's like we're there.

0:57.1

Gunpowder, broken windows, and broken pieces of furniture.

1:25.6

It's all captured in the best technology of its time. And in 1866, that's the woodblock. Ink soaked. Ink soaked and laid on a press bed until its tiny truth is presented in thousands of newspapers and magazines.

1:34.3

The skilled engraver must draw lightly in reverse, etching white on black ink, the outline of the body strewn on the floor,

1:42.2

the broken chair, the window frame with the tell-tale bullet hole,

1:46.8

the outline of a man with pistolsed hands, others with the shape of clubs, like a surgeon.

1:52.9

He then chooses his instruments carefully and makes very precise cuts,

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