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Subject This Week in People’s History, Jan 30-Feb 5
Date January 30, 2024 3:20 AM
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THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY, JAN 30-FEB 5  
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_ Nazis in the Woodwork (in 1964), Nixon's Crime-Control (1969),
Sorry, We Forgot the Casing (1969), Slavery By Another Name (1909),
Segregated Schools in NYC? Sure. (1964), E.P. Thompson at 100 (1924),
Ugly Americans (1899), Justice Delayed (1994) _

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_NAZIS IN THE POST-WAR GERMAN WOODWORK_

60 YEARS AGO, on January 30, 1964, the world got a shocking reminder
that the Third Reich was far from dead when Ewald Peters, the chief
bodyguard of West Germany's highest official, was arrested on charges
of having committed mass executions of Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine
during World War 2. On the next day, a West German cabinet member,
Hans Krüger , the Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War
Victims (!), resigned when he was exposed as having been a member of
the Nazi Party and having served as judge in the "judicial" system the
Nazis had set up in Poland. Neither man was ever tried for the crimes
he was accused of. Peters committed suicide four days after his
arrest. As for Krüger, the former Minister for Displaced Persons,
Refugees and War Victims, punishment was his forced retirement.
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_NIXON PLAYS THE PREVENTIVE-DETENTION CARD_

55 YEARS AGO, on January 31, 1969, President Richard Nixon, who had
taken office 11 days earlier, unveiled his 12-point "crime control"
program. One of Nixon's objectives was to repeal the 1966 Bail Reform
Act, which had greatly expanded the bail rights of federal criminal
defendants by mandating pretrial release if the defendant's
appearance at trial could be adequately assured. That 1966 law was a
watershed for the bail reform movement, and Nixon's attack on it
(which became law in July 1970) was similarly a watershed for the
enemies of bail reform.
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_Sorry, We Forgot to Install the Casing_
 
55 YEARS AGO, on February 1, 1969, it became apparent that the ongoing
4-day-old Santa Barbara Channel oil-well blowout, off the coast of
California, which was to continue for months and become what was then
the biggest-ever U.S. oil spill (it eventually totaled more than 5
million gallons) had been the result of Union Oil's drillers violating
federal regulations by neglecting to install the required 300 feet of
casing as the drilling commenced. Nevertheless, on Feb 1, the
California Fish and Game Commission Administration "reported that
injury to birds and fish had been minimal so far, and that at the
moment no extensive damage was foreseen." As it happened, in fact, the
spill killed at least 3500 birds, as well as untold numbers of
dolphins, elephant seals, sea lions, fish and molluscs. Of course, the
Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon catastrophes were yet to occur.
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_SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME IN PITTSBURGH_

115 YEARS AGO, on February 2, 1909, police in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, arrested more than 200 Black men who were not able to
prove they were employed.  The charge was vagrancy. The next day, the
men were sentenced to hard labor and imprisoned in the workhouse. Such
racist enforcement of anti-vagrancy laws was not new in the U.S., but
it had been much more common in the former Confederate states in the
years following the Civil War. In that region, hundreds of thousands,
if not millions of formerly enslaved people were arrested because they
could not prove they were employed. Once they were convicted of
vagrancy they were forced to labor for the government, or they were
"leased" to private businesses. For much more information, visit
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_SEGREGATED SCHOOLS IN NYC? SURE._

60 YEARS AGO, on February 3, 1964, more than 460,000 students and 3500
teachers, the vast majority of them African-American or Puerto Rican,
boycotted public schools in New York City to protest de facto
segregation of the schools. The number represented more than one-third
of the city's schoolchildren. What was described as the largest civil
rights protest in U.S. history was initiated by the Congress of Racial
Equality, the NAACP, the Parents Workshop for Equality and Harlem
Parents Committee and coordinated by the Citywide Committee for
Integrated Schools.
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_E.P. Thompson at 100_
 
100 YEARS AGO, on February 3, 1924, one of the world's foremost
Marxist historians, Edward P. Thompson, was born in Oxford, England.
Among his many masterful publications, The Making of the English
Working Class, published in 1963, remains a monument to the value of
deep research informed by materialist analysis. It is also a great
read.
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_THE BIRTH OF U.S. IMPERIALISM WASN'T PRETTY, OF COURSE_

125 YEARS AGO, on February 4, 1899, the President of the 2-week-old
Philippine Republic, Emilio Aguinaldo, declared war on the United
States after U.S. President William McKinley refused to recognize the
republic's independence. The Philippines had just ceased to be a
colony of Spain as a result of the Spanish-American War, but the
Filipino people did not desire to be a U.S. colony any more than they
had wanted to be a Spanish colony. It was the beginning of a long,
drawn-out war of conquest that killed at least 210,000 Filipinos,
almost all of them civilians, most of whom died as a result of
starvation or disease. Some estimates of the number of Filipino
fatalities are as high as a million. The higher number would represent
about 13 percent of the country's population. The U.S. occupation
government, which remained in power until 1942, bears total
responsibility for the mystery concerning the number of people killed
by U.S. troops. In 1946 the U.S. finally gave up attempting to
suppress the independence of the Philippines.
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_WHEELS OF JUSTICE TURN, BUT JUST BARELY_

30 YEARS AGO, on February 5, 1994, justice -- drastically delayed --
was finally done. The racist who murdered civil rights activist Medgar
Evers in 1963, whose identity had been well-known for almost 30 years,
was finally convicted for the cowardly crime. Soon after that, Byron
De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison, where he died of
natural causes seven years later.
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* war on crime
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* oil spills
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* jim crow
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* school segregation
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* E.P. Thompson
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* Philippines
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* Medgar Evers
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