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Bloody Monday
Season 2 · Episode 1

Bloody Monday

The story of America's deadliest anti-Catholic riot

History Dispatches

October 13, 202515m 2s

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Show Notes

On August 6, 1855, in Louisville, Kentucky, a bitter rivalry between the Democrats and the Nativist Know-Nothing Party erupted in a series of riots. Protestant mobs attacked Irish and German Catholic neighborhoods - leaving 22 people dead, dozens injured, and more than 100 homes and businesses torched and looted. This is the story of Bloody Monday.


Sources


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Monday

https://www.louisvilleirish.com/bloody-monday-memorial/


Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Krakatoa_eruption_lithograph.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bloody_Monday_Election_Riots.jpg


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