Boundary Stones
How a D.C. Civil Rights Activist Fought Racism with Rodents
Special | 2m 8s
In the 1960s, Julius Hobson used a new tactic to fight racial inequality: rat relocation rallies.
Rats in Washington, D.C. have always been bad – in the 1960s, the city had as many rats as people — but one local civil rights activist Julius Hobson decided to do something about it: to protest the lack of rat patrols in Black neighborhoods, he would capture rats in Shaw and near Northeast and release them in swanky, upscale Georgetown. Alive.
Boundary Stones is a local public television program presented by WETA
Boundary Stones
How a D.C. Civil Rights Activist Fought Racism with Rodents
Special | 2m 8s
Rats in Washington, D.C. have always been bad – in the 1960s, the city had as many rats as people — but one local civil rights activist Julius Hobson decided to do something about it: to protest the lack of rat patrols in Black neighborhoods, he would capture rats in Shaw and near Northeast and release them in swanky, upscale Georgetown. Alive.
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Boundary Stones is a local public television program presented by WETA