Today in history – July 13, 1863:
The NYC Draft Riots erupt. White mobs burn Black homes, lynch civilians, and attack abolitionists, all to protest the Civil War draft.
This wasn’t protest. It was white rage.
When hate overrides law, democracy cracks.
#DraftRiots #TodayInHistory

What an amazing #BlackHistoryMonth gift!

Thank you, @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social for sharing this amazing #CivicsForAll comic so vividly documenting the 1863 #draftriots in NYC which alluded to the heroism of my GGG grandmother, abolitionist Christiana Livingston Williams Freeman (1812-1908)!