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It's a Disaster, Y'all - Shiloh Baptist Church Stampede

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This episode discusses the Shiloh Baptist Church Stampede in Birmingham, Alabama, where one misheard word led to the death of over 100 people.

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Sources

  • The Trumpet Blast - https://bplonline.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4017coll8/id/5592/
  • United Nations Development Programme - https://www.undp.org/blog/women-are-hit-hardest-disasters-so-why-are-responses-too-often-gender-blind#:~:text=The%20statistics%20are%20staggering%3B%20when,Tsunami%2C%2070%20percent%20were%20women
  • Birmingham Age-Herald – Sept 21, 1902 – Lesson of the Tragedy
  • Baggett, J.L. (2010). Keep still: Booker T. Washington and the Shiloh church tragedy. Alabama Heritage.
  • Gilmore, Melissa (2014) "Shiloh Baptist Church Tragedy: Tracing Theories of Collective Behavior to Understand Crowd Panic and How It Relates to the Birmingham Panic of 1902," 18(5).
  • Young, J.Y. (2022, October 30). Why did so many more women than men die in the Itaewon Halloween disaster? The New York Times.
  • Blum, D. (2022, November 1). What to do if you find yourself in a crowd crush. The New York Times.

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