Bloody Monday Election Riots

American Catholic History

Noelle & Tom Crowe

History, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

5 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Election Day, August 6, 1855, is known as Bloody Monday in Louisville, Kentucky. The Know Nothings used violence to try to keep Catholics from voting, and the violence turned into riots. By the end of the day 22 were confirmed dead, though the number of dead was likely over 100. Learn more about this awful day in Louisville, which played a role in Louisville falling behind other cities along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, like Cincinnati and St. Louis, in terms of population and economic importance.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to American Catholic History, brought to you by the support of listeners like you.
0:11.0	If you like this podcast and would like to support our work, please visit American Catholic
0:16.0	History.org slash support. I'm Noelle Heister Crow. And I'm Tom Crow.
0:21.6	Today we're talking about Bloody Monday in Louisville, Kentucky, August 6, 1855.
0:28.3	Yeah, this is another episode brought to us by our old friends, the know-nothings.
0:32.2	Keep coming back.
0:32.9	Yeah, they do.
0:33.8	And this is one of their most spectacular offenses.
0:36.5	Probably their highest body count, and it certainly
0:38.7	includes some of the most horrific things that they did.
0:41.4	Yeah, the only episode that really compares is the riots in Philadelphia in 1844.
0:46.5	Those riots also had a high dust hole, and lots of Catholic homes and businesses were burned down.
0:52.2	Plus two Catholic churches.
0:53.4	Right.
0:54.1	Yeah, so it may be a close call to say which is worse, but there's no question. and businesses were burned down. Plus two Catholic churches. Right. Yeah.
0:54.4	So it may be a close call to say which is worse, but there's no question they both were awful.
0:59.8	Sure.
1:00.4	Though one big difference was the motivation.
1:02.7	In Philadelphia, the fight happened over which version of the Bible should be used in public schools.
1:08.0	Imagine that.
1:08.9	While in Louisville, it was over whether or not Catholics
1:11.3	should be allowed to vote. But one thing we can say with certainty, Louisville is a great town
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