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🗓️ 13 August 2024
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August 13, 1906. A shooting in Brownsville, Texas, leads to the largest dismissal in the history of the United States Army.
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0:10.0 | or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. It's just after a midnight on August 13, 1906 in Brownsville, Texas. Mayor Fred Coomb races down the street in a horse-drawn wagon. |
0:36.0 | He's headed for the town's main strip. The humid night air whips his face and every now and |
0:41.8 | then he clutches his hat so it doesn't fly off. |
0:45.2 | As he approaches the center of town, he sees saloons shuttered and hotel doors locked. |
0:50.6 | Minutes before, men had been drinking together after a long day's work, but now every |
0:55.0 | window's curtains are drawn, except for just enough to reveal curious spying eyes. |
1:00.0 | When Fred's wagon reaches a group of huddle police officers in the street, he brings his |
1:05.8 | horses to a stop and hops down from the carriage. |
1:09.5 | Fred pushes through the cluster of men and spots one officer clutching his bloody arm. |
1:14.0 | He asks what happened, but before the man can answer, |
1:17.5 | Fred notices something else, a body of a young bartender lifeless on the ground. |
1:24.2 | Koom bows his head, removes his hat, and holds it against his heart. |
1:28.9 | After a moment he looks up and asks again, what happened here? The men all rushed to speak at once, |
1:34.8 | accusing army soldiers stationed on the askert to town. The 25th infantry is an all-black unit, |
1:41.3 | and the police say they saw dark faces lit up behind the gunfire. |
1:45.8 | Fred is confused. The 25th infantry is under a strict curfew tonight. He and their |
1:51.0 | commanding officer set the curfew themselves. |
1:54.0 | Racial tensions in Brownsville are already high, |
1:57.0 | and the curfew is in place to prevent violence. |
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