Hasty History #10: The Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Vincent Chin, a twenty-seven year old Chinese-American man that was beaten to death in Detroit, Michigan, on June 19, 1982. He was beaten by two white men that worked in the Detroit automobile industry. These men would beat Chin to death when they mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for their being out of work due to the recent influx in Japanese car imports. But the tragedy doesn’t stop there. Because, when these two men were tried for murder, they would end up instead being convicted of manslaughter and would receive only a fine of $3,000…and no jail time. The judge in this case was quoted as saying, in reference to the light sentence he had given the men, “These aren’t the kind of men you send to jail. You fit the punishment to the criminal, not the crime.” Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

8 Maalis 202235min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing a few stories of what we like to call slack-wearing suffragettes. This episode has a heavy focus, however, on the Van Buren Sisters who were two sisters who rode 5,500 miles in 60 days to cross the continental United States on their own motorcycle! In 1916, they became the second and third women to drive motorcycles across the entire continent! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

22 Helmi 202244min

As you all know, we are currently on a season break and working hard behind the scenes to bring you a very exciting Season Ten very soon! In the meantime, however, we thought it would be fun to give you some bonus content! We hope you enjoy! In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the 1917 Bath Riots. These were a series of riots that occurred in January of 1917 when seventeen-year-old Carmelita Torres refused to take a toxic bath in order to cross from Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas. Yes, you heard that correctly: American officials in Texas required Mexicans entering the United States to strip naked, be physically inspected, sprayed down with water that contained gasoline and other toxic chemicals, and undergo an intensive lice treatment. When Torres refused to be humiliated in this way, it sparked a series of riots that would occur over the course of two days at the Santa Fe Bridge. This is an often forgotten story in American History and one that is super important to talk about and remember. So let's dive in! Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com.

8 Helmi 20229min

As you all know, we are currently on a season break and working hard behind the scenes to bring you a very exciting Season Ten very soon! In the meantime, however, we thought it would be fun to give you some bonus content! We hope you enjoy! In January of 1908, a woman named Katie Mulcahey was arrested when she was caught smoking in public. Just one day prior, a new ordinance was passed that banned women - and only women - from smoking in public places. Mulcahey, not knowing about the new ordinance, struck a match and lit her cigarette in public. She was cited for the infraction but refused to pay and was immediately arrested. When put before a judge, she was quoted as saying, “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.” Tune into this week's BONUS episode to learn how this story ends! Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com.

25 Tammi 202210min

This week on Hashtag History, we are joined by Amber Hunt of the Crimes of the Centuries podcast as we discuss the Osage Nation Murders. The Osage Nation Murders were a series of murders that occurred over the course of decades in the early 1900s. Also know as the Reign of Terror, the Osage Nation Murders marks the murders of approximately sixty Osage Native Americans by those that wanted to take over their land and headrights to the lucrative oil it produced. The subsequent investigation was conducted by the still-evolving Federal Bureau of Investigation and would mark one of the most devastating massacres and conspiracies in American History. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast. And don't forget to follow Crimes of the Centuries on Instagram @centuriespod. See our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

18 Tammi 202244min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the forced sterilization of thousands of Latinas here in California throughout the 20th century. In 1909, California passed a eugenics law that allowed for the sterilization of people considered to be “unfit or feeble-minded” unquote. Of the 20,000 people forcibly sterilized in California between the years of 1909 and 1979, it was found that Latinas carried a nearly 60% higher risk of forced sterilization than any other racial group. Perhaps one of the most devastating things about this dark chapter in History are the heartbreaking stories of numerous women attempting to get pregnant; not realizing that they had been sterilized. In particular, there was a groundbreaking class action lawsuit in the 1970s that ten Latina women would bring forward, proving that they had been coerced into signing what many of them did not realize was a sterilization consent form. Due to a language barrier and the fact that some of these women were forced to sign this form while they were literally in labor, many of them did not realize that they had been sterilized until weeks and months later; some of them didn’t realize it until they were attempting to get pregnant again. This episode does have a specific focus on the sterilization of Latina women in California throughout the 20th century. But that isn’t to ignore the horrendous stories of Black and Indigenous women - as well as women with disabilities - that were also forcibly sterilized. Additionally, this episode does have a narrow focus on California as California made up 80% of sterilizations throughout the United States during this time period! We do, however, want to acknowledge that harmful eugenics laws were passed throughout the United States and affected tens of thousands of people nationwide. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

11 Tammi 202242min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Henri Charriere - or, as he was nicknamed, Papillon - a condemned prisoner that was sent to one of the most infamous prisons in History in French Guiana known as Devil’s Island. After eight escape attempts, Charriere finally successfully escaped the notoriously impossible-to-escape prison, living the latter part of his life as a free man when he was pardoned by the French Justice System for his alleged crime. In 1968, when Charriere was sixty-two years old, he published an autobiography titled Papillon in which he detailed the wild stories of his incarceration and escape from Devil’s Island. This book was an immediate success and is nowadays considered a modern classic. By the time Charriere passed away in 1973, more than five million copies of the book had been sold. To this day, there are more than 200 editions of the book and it has been sold in 21 different languages. This book was adapted into a film in 1973 starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and another movie adaptation was made in 2017 starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek. The validity of the Papillon book continues to be called into question, however, as it is believed that this book can’t possibly be a true autobiography of Charriere’s experiences. In fact, it is more often than not believed that many of the experiences he wrote about in Papillon were either total works of fiction or were indeed real…but had actually occurred to other inmates and not to him. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

4 Tammi 202234min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Liebeck vs. McDonald’s Restaurants, more commonly known as the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case. In 1992, a seventy-nine-year old woman named Stella Liebeck bought a cup of coffee from a McDonald’s drive thru in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While in her car, she spilled the coffee in her lap and suffered severe burns. She took this matter to court and would be awarded close to $3 million dollars. When the story first came out, the general public was told the Liebeck was lawsuit-happy; if someone can get nearly $3 million dollars for spilling coffee on themselves - coffee that she had to have known was hot - while she was driving and not paying attention, that just goes to show that now anyone can sue anyone for anything! In fact, we nowadays give away a Stella Awards (named after Stella Liebeck) for each year’s most frivolous, ridiculous lawsuits. Over the course of this episode though, we will learn that nearly every single one of those - quote unquote - “facts” of the case were, in fact, false. Nearly every detail you think you know about this case is about to get debunked. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

28 Joulu 202138min