Racism and discrimination
Introduction This project examines racial discrimination in the United States from the late 1800’s to present day. My project will have a focus on the Civil Rights Movement and the… Read more »
Category: Matthew Smith
Immigrant Discrimination
The song No Irish need Apply provides a humorous take at the discrimination against Irishmen during the mid 1800s. The source tells about how during the influx of Irish immigration,… Read more »
Black Discrimination & the Civil Rights Movement
In this source, we are greeted with a death threat to the Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner. The threat, written by a Ku Klux Klan member, writes about how he is… Read more »
Racism in the Modern Era
During the early 90’s, 4 police officers were acquitted of excessive force chargers from a video that had been captured and spread, showing the officers graphically beat a black man,… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources Adams, Ansel. Science Lecture, Manzanar Relocation Center. 1943. Ansel Adams’s Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs, Library of Congress, Manzanar, CA. John F. Poole, No Irish need apply. H…. Read more »