Draft Riots 
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/18/2021
The Real Story of the ‘Draft Riots’
by Elizabeth Mitchell
"The story of the merchants’ response to the so-called Draft Riots is a reminder that we can all do more if we don’t want the lives of more Black people to be marred by cruelty."
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