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Us and them : a history of intolerance in America
Us and Them illuminates the dark corners of our nation's past and traces our ongoing efforts to live up to the American ideals of equality and justice. Fourteen case studies -- enhanced through the use of original documents, historical photos, newly commissioned paintings, and dramatic narrativ...
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Table of Contents:
- The silencing of Mary Dyer (1660): A Quaker woman in colonial Massachusetts risks her life for religious liberty
- Blankets for the dead (1830s): Forced from their homeland, the Cherokee people walk into exile on the Trail of Tears
- No promised land (1838): Tension between early settlers and Mormon newcomers breeds violence on the Missouri frontier
- Harriet Jacobs owns herself (1842): A North Carolina slave girl escapes a nightmare and follows her dreams to freedom
- In the city of brotherly love (1844): A Philadelphia school controversy brings Protestant nativists and Catholic immigrants to blows
- A rumbling in the mines (1885): Chinese laborers face deadly racial hatred in Wyoming
- Ghost dance at Wounded Knee (1890: The government's campaign to subdue Native Americans culminates in a massacre on the plains
- The ballad of Leo Frank (1913): A Northern Jew becomes a scapegoat for Southernors' fears
- Untamed border (1971): Mexican Americans endure a reign of terror by the Texas Rangers
- A town called Rosewood (1923): White Floridians wipe an African American community off the map
- Home was a horse stall (1942): A young Japanese American woman ponders the meaning of freedom behind barbed wire
- Nightriding with the Klan (1981): A troubled Alabama teenager enters the brotherhood of hate
- A rose for Charlie (1984): A gay man's lifetime of harassment ends on a bridge in Maine
- Street justice (1991): In the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, two worlds collide
- Out of the shadows.