The story of a newspaper reporter and publisher who advocated for the preservation of Hispanic heritage through education and social services.
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Delta, Louisiana. Sarah’s parents and her four older siblings had been enslaved on a cotton plantation until the end of the Civil War. Sarah was the first member of her family to be born into freedom. The family lived and worked together as sharecroppers
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demanding fair treatment: “We have fought for the liberty of white Americans in six wars; our reward is East St. Louis.”
What tactics did the parade organizers and marchers use?
Who is in this photo, and why?
What messages were they sending? Who
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American: Exclusion/Inclusion (see Resource 18). How did each system work around immigration policy? What do these systems tell us about attitudes toward Asian immigration?
Many picture brides were in their thirties and forties when World War II began and
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Maggie Lena Draper was born in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War. Her mother, Elizabeth Draper, was a former slave who married William Mitchell after emancipation, when Maggie was a baby. William was a butler for a white family and later the
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-York Historical Society Teen Leaders in collaboration with the Untold project.
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Growing Up
Ida B. Wells was not yet three when the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished, so she had no personal memory of being
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Communist Party and her anti-war beliefs. She and her children remained under government surveillance for two decades.
By her 80s, Clara was living in a nursing home. She helped the staff form a union and encouraged people at the home to boycott certain
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sign of things to come.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK): A white supremacy group formed by ex-Confederates after the Civil War that terrorized Black citizens and their supporters.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): A civil rights
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feminism. Artists and choreographers used their talents to explore femininity. World War I opened doors for women to work as volunteers and paid workers, and even travel overseas for the first time.
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Section
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-class society.
This privileged view of the world offered a limited definition of what it meant to be American. And as the threat of a world war loomed, deep fears of radical outsiders only further entrenched nativist tendencies.
Immigration policies like the
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