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Lynching in America

Instructed by Robert Holden

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UPDATE (posted 1/3/25): This class has been rescheduled to Monday 1/13 due to the weather forecast.

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In anticipation of African American History month in February, this will be a disturbing examination (in Holden’s power point) showing how lynching (thousands took place from after the Civil War up to the 1970’s!) kept down fearful Black Americans and in the face of massive discrimination (North and South) how Jim Crow Laws prevented Blacks from the achievements and successes they deserved as Americans! There will also be a discussion about how Hitler and the Nazis copied Jim Crow Laws in the U.S. to create their dreaded Nuremberg Laws in 1935. Book to read – “Hitler’s American Model”. It is a shock to think that the U.S. Congress only recently passed an Antilynching Law!

Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)

He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.

He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai (about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them exit visas), both of which are available to check out from the library.

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