Sound Smart: The Haymarket Square Riot

Sound Smart: The Haymarket Square Riot | History

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7 жыл бұрын

Historian Yohuru Williams gives a crash course on a riot in Chicago's Haymarket Square that changed the labor movement in the United States.
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@fdee0505 3 жыл бұрын

why did my teacher think THIS was a good source to get info from

@karstenkunneman5219 3 жыл бұрын

lmao mine too

@aifengchen2131 3 жыл бұрын

Same here lol

@angelam.7267 3 жыл бұрын

same

@undergroundsubs9681 3 жыл бұрын

One person's perspective.

@pulsatingsausageboy2076 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy to assume you were capable of or interested in learning anything.

@3DReaper 6 жыл бұрын

He said 8 were convicted. 4 were executed + 1 committed suicide + 2 were parted = 7. What about the 8th person?

@muhammadqaiser3833 6 жыл бұрын

Three were pardoned instead of two. Source: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

@blackspring3207 4 жыл бұрын

@@muhammadqaiser3833 nope. one of them, Oscar Neebe, was never sentenced to death. he was the only one to be sentenced to many years in prison instead.

@mateocorazon7347 4 жыл бұрын

@@blackspring3207 Seven convicted to death, one of whom (Lingg) killed himself rather than let the state decide his death - it was an act of resistance, two had their sentence commuted to life, Neebe was sentenced to 15 years. The remaining three still in prison were pardoned. His comment in the video implies one of the last three committed suicide, which I don't believe that to be correct. He is sugar-coating a lot!

@sydlawson3181 4 жыл бұрын

If you *"want to sound smart about the haymarket riots"* this is not *"all you need to know"* This video leaves out prominent details like the fact the prosecutor eluded to the men's innocence in court saying they were "No guiltier than the many men who follow them" and that an example should be made of them. Two of the men convicted weren't even at the protest. Also with all this talk of "radicalism" I think it's a worth while to mention that all the protesters were looking for was an eight hour day, Chicago was at this time an industrial nightmare and the fact the violence which erupted is STILL pinned on "radical Anarchism" is ridiculous. This even was entirely brought on by the pernicious actions of the police pushing people into a state of desperation and was one of the main events that pushed Anarchism from it's more peaceful roots into more terrorist areas.

@MrTee12 4 жыл бұрын

Even till this day, many police officers are pernicious.

@sydlawson3181 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrTee12 it is the unfortunate nature of the law enforcement community to forever be a prime target of manipulation by those with money and strong conservative agendas.

@solsav Жыл бұрын

what is, or rather are, "terrorist areas"?

@davidpeppers551 Жыл бұрын

@solsav terrorist actions, perhaps? Which could still use some defining. I keep having troubles with these Grammer and spelling programs .

@davidpeppers551 Жыл бұрын

@solsav terrorist actions, perhaps? Which could still use some defining. I keep having troubles with these Grammer and spelling programs .

@jonser2008 6 жыл бұрын

This video leaves out a lot of important information.

@Name-jw4sj 4 жыл бұрын

Paul Blackwell it’s the history channel what do expect? They leave out important information to render the state has innocent when in actuality they were complicit murderers for corporations. History channel is a joke..

@goofy_walking_pluto1218 3 жыл бұрын

it’s 2 minutes long mate

@musicaldoge9412 5 жыл бұрын

Sad to see such a rushed out product that a bunch of people will pass off as fact because of this video, when it’s really bias and poorly researched

@michelepaolini8609 4 жыл бұрын

"How to sound smart"?! Why not just try to be smart? It's like saying "I give you a way to pretend you are smart but you don't need to".

@Ecnh2 5 жыл бұрын

I'm loving the hand gestures

@emmacorcoran1960 3 жыл бұрын

i think my professor needs to brush up on what a primary source is because this ain't it.

@bayleelebron2910 5 жыл бұрын

Very well explained, thank you

@emuriddle9364 4 жыл бұрын

People were tired of being treated like garbage. Their leaders didn't listen to them. And somehow they get punished for standing up for themselves? This was an event in history that should have never happened. The one thing I feel bad about is those police officers, who were being used as a proxy by the people who abused those workers to being with.

@End-Result 4 жыл бұрын

Strange how Prof Williams alludes several times to "radical" elements of the worker's movement, without going to into any detail. Peculiar way of giving Anarchists the credit they deserve... 🤔

@zach_factor1683 3 жыл бұрын

The term "radical" isn't used in a negative connotation in this video, it is just used to describe how the ideas of some of the workers at the time were more closely aligned with socialism than with capitalism

@tomkastle Жыл бұрын

The last minute jump to Mao was stupid and revealed the bias of this "crash course"

@lyraserpentine894 7 жыл бұрын

So, like, is there more to this video? There are a great many details missing.

@johnborris3222 6 жыл бұрын

Well, it's not supposed to go into great detail. That's obvious by the title.

@wetbadger2174 3 жыл бұрын

Some say there were aliens at the first labor riots

@RayLRhodes 2 жыл бұрын

1:26 Wouldn't there be four remaining?

@liszeng0717 5 жыл бұрын

What was the triumph? The tragedy is people die and many injuries .... Plz answer!!!

@billiejeandavey7945 2 жыл бұрын

history is repeating

@utterbullspit Жыл бұрын

He's a historian? What are his creditentials and does he teach at a school?

@BabsRage 28 күн бұрын

he's an actor

@bura-barivincentnwilo6575 3 жыл бұрын

Names of the executed labour leaders and the one who committed suicide?

@walmartmcnasty9688 3 жыл бұрын

august spies, albert parsons, george engel and adolph fischer were executed. samuel fielden was going to be executed but was pardoned by the governor. louis lingg committed suicide a day before his execution. all 4 executions happened on november 11 1887. this channel doesnt really talk allot about this event, but theres others that do

@dannyblanco8544 3 жыл бұрын

Sad, no sub 😭

@davidpeppers551 Жыл бұрын

There's so little background. How had workers become so radicalized? How did such a mass movement start? Where did this start? Chicago? Elsewhere? Who were the people who spearheaded the movement? Who were the ones spurring them on? Notice a pattern there? These are the questions a decent journalist should be asking. Why wouldn't a historian ask them too? What were the consequences? I guess we eventually got the 8-hour day. When was that? Now, the eight hour day provisions have been eroding away, with all the exceptions and mandatory overtime. Do you really have an eight hour day when your employer says overtime is MANDATORY? I guess most workers still get 1.5 X pay for overtime. It is still most workers who must be paid at least that for overtime? Of course, many are in the medical field, I believe all agricultural workers are exempt, but those are the only exceptions of which I am aware.

@davidpeppers551 Жыл бұрын

Actually, I thought of another one. They call you a manager and put you on salary and whether you work 30 hours or 90, you still just get that $30K or 40k "salary." My brother in law had one such job and he figured it out on an hourly basis and declared he was making a couple dollars an hour less than minimum wage. What a way to get around minimum wage laws!

@henrywalton2753 7 жыл бұрын

@brichards8697 3 жыл бұрын

Hello 👋

@intellect5850 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Brichards and Bhenry

@PEPL515 Жыл бұрын

Shut it

@gonzalo4979 4 жыл бұрын

like si eres de LT

@brianswingley7099 3 жыл бұрын

7 or 6 police men die?

@walmartmcnasty9688 3 жыл бұрын

one died from the bombing at that moment, 6 died of injuries later on

@ElRixSape Жыл бұрын

@@walmartmcnasty9688 it's surprising how the in group with the guns died more than the people fleeing from them, these numbers are rigged.

@seandavs 7 жыл бұрын

How can I sound smart about something because I watched a biased TV historian tell me what to think? Why not provide me with all the information? Might that make me not "sound smart?" or could that much info allow me to deliver the "wrong version of history" to someone else? History is not up for debate according to Yohuru Williams. What he says is what ya get. And tell your friends so you "look smart." Thanks Yohuru. Any historian, especially TV historians who tell you what to think instead of providing facts which spark debate are criminal revisionist at work. Beware.