Adio Dinika

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Research fellow @DAIR institute | https://data-workers.org/ Exploring digital labour, platform power, & AI ethics from a global majority lense. Creative writer| I drink whisky, and I know things

Text from an exhibit titled 'The Know-Nothing Riot, 1857.' It describes the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood in Washington, DC, becoming a working-class area by the 1840s. A decade later, during a wave of European immigration, native-born white Americans formed the secretive 'Know-Nothings,' a political party opposing immigrants and Roman Catholics. In 1857, Washington Know-Nothings, with the help of the 'Plug-Uglies' gang from Baltimore, disrupted a city election. The mob attacked the Northern Liberty Market polling station to drive away voters. President Buchanan sent in two companies of Marines to restore order, resulting in a clash that left six dead and 21 wounded. Afterward, the polls reopened, and the Know-Nothing candidate was defeated. Reproduction credit: Library of Congress.