The dark history of “gasoline baths” at the border Toxic chemicals — and Nazis — are part of US border history.

Know your (actual) history children. #CarmelitaTorres, #BathRiots. Inspiring the Nazis in Germany.
The dark history of “gasoline baths” at the border www.vox.com/2019/7/29/89...

The #BathRiots began #ThisDayInHistory in 1917 when 17-year-old #CarmelitaTorres convinced dozens of other Mexican labourers at the border to refuse degrading, dangerous, #racist treatment like baths in gasoline & pesticide #ZyklonB - the same pesticide used in Nazi gas chambers.

#OTD in 1917 the infamous #BathRiots erupted at the El Paso-Juarez border crossing station when Carmelita Torres, a 17-year-old maid who crossed daily from Juarez to El Paso to work, refused to endure a gasoline bath - an unsafe and humiliating procedure rooted in racism.

(1/2) On #ThisDayInHistory in 1917 the so-called #BathRiots began when 17-year-old Mexican maid #CarmelitaTorres convinced dozens of other day labourers at the US border not to submit to degrading #racist treatment like forced gasoline baths & delousing with pesticide #ZyklonB...

#gasolinebaths #bathriots #carmelitatorres #usborder #borderhistory