for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need to build a whole bunch of new stuff. you need a whole bunch of new or retooled or expanded facilities to build that stuff. you need a lot of people to work in those facilities, so they need a place to live. the math is simple, right? on paper, that s all very rational. that all just follows. it s very logistical. it makes sense. in practice, though, it was its own kind of war. while detroit resi
uniforms, everything. the government opened defense production facilities all over the country. factories, they either retooled the existing ones, or they built new ones. and in some places, there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number for retooled plants, or a bunch of new ones that were built. one of the things that emerged quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian use in detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need t
african american families tried to move into that new housing that had been built for defense workers in detroit. white was it is organized a tight picking around that housing, and they also block the moving trucks from being allowed in to drop off any of the belongings of the new family started just arrived. the white mob s attacks the black families, and force them back by throwing rocks at them. with dozens of people were injured. that was february 1942. in april 1942, these two men were arrested for having organized the violence. they were indicted by federal grand jury. these two men were part of something called, the national workers league. that s kind of a weird name for a group organizing anti-black violent riots, right? i mean, these were defensive workers whose families these guys were attacking, this national workers league. yes, turns out it was this kind
the united states senate in order to stand up for him. the whole standoff was only resolved when theodore bilbo had the decency, at least, to go home and die from cancer before the senate came to session that year. so the whole standoff became and both those examples are from the 40s. but you know, pick a decade. i got 1 million of them. this is a man named david lane. he was part of a parliamentary group that robbed armored cars. they built bombs. they ran military training camps. the counterfeited s currency in large amounts. and ultimately, they murdered a jewish talk radio host in denver, and manning ellenburg in 1934. all these crimes were committed. all these murders were committed in the service of setting of what david lane and his fans hoped would be a race war. in which, white people in america would kill all the non-white people in america. and like those guys who
blocked from taking a seat in the u.s. senate, they would block the seating of every united states senator in the united states senate. they would, in other words, shut down the senate. they would shut down the legislative branch of the federal u.s. government indefinitely. they would end the u.s. senate, unless theodore bilbo was sworn in, bribes, terrorism and all. he was their guy. they were willing to get rid of the united states senate in order to stand up for him. the whole standoff was only resolved when theodore bilbo had the decency, at least, to go home and die from cancer before the senate came to session that year. so the whole standoff became moot and both those examples are from the 40s. but you know, pick a decade. i got 1 million of them. this is a man named david lane. he was part of a parliamentary group that robbed armored cars. they built bombs. they ran military training