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Racism

The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan was most powerful during the 1920's when membership rose to nearly three million members.  The Klan aimed to alienate non-whites and other religious groups from the rest of American society.  The Klan was a hate group and displayed their hatred by killing thousands of people and destroying the lives of many others  The Klan was based in the South, but spread their hate across America.  The site is dedicated to the findings of four students through various Klan related links and their research papers.

Lynchings in Duluth: 1920
Students will study a horrific incident of racially-motivated group violence and murder which took place in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1920. By reading and analyzing a compelling book, The Lynchings in Duluth, and by researching related topics, students will learn about the historical
context of the incident and its impact on Minnesota and the nation. Finally, they will investigate their own roles in resisting racism. The lesson plan includes the links to be used, but not the book that this is based on.

Jim Crow Lesson Plan
It's 1902, and your hometown of Smallville, Alabama, like other surrounding cities and towns, has affirmed and entrenched Jim Crow laws into the culture and laws of the town. You have decided to form a task force to end the segregational practices and to begin to unify the south.

You and your task force (give it a great name!) must educate yourselves about the extent of the laws, and the impact of the laws on the lives of both whites and black residents. This can be done by visiting the local library, the World Wide Web.

The Chinatown Tong Wars
Racists bias wasn’t just against African Americans and the violence of the 1920's was not restricted to bootleggers. Shortly after the World War I Armistice, San Francisco's Chinatown erupted in another kind of gangland warfare. While Chief White's cleanup campaign had succeeded in wiping out the last vestiges of the Barbary Coast, the Tongs had continued to operate brothels, gambling parlors, and opium dens, and even trafficked in Chinese "slave girls."