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Fear - Japanese Internment

<p>During World War II, most Japanese-Americans living in the Western United States were rounded up and moved from their homes and forced to live in Internment Camps, behind barbed wire fences. President Roosevelt authorized this action under <strong>Executive Order 9066</strong>. These were essentially prisons for the crime of having Japaneses ancestry. The fear was they would be more loyal to Japan than to their home country in which they were legal citizens. The Government tried to suggest it was also in part to protect these citizens from reprisals from non-Japanese Americans. Despite this treatment, many of the children of the interned Japanese served in the the American Armed forces and died defending their country. Interned Japanese-Americans lost their homes, their jobs, and their businesses simply because they shared ancestry with a nation that attacked us. </p><p>The Internment of Japanese-Americans has become a black stain in American History and in recognition of the wrong done, President Ronald Reagan in 1988 authorized the payment of 1.6 billion dollars to 82,219 survivors of the camps as reparation for the harm done. This amounted to about $20,000 each. </p><p>These Documents, pictures and artifacts provide some insight to the harm done when a Nation becomes afraid of its own people. <br /></p>
Mark Carlin
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Freddie Gray Riots in Baltimore Maryland

<p>Included in this collection are pictures of the Riots in Baltimore after Freddie Gray had been arrested and died while in transport to the Police Station. Gray had not be seat belted or hand cuffed in and sustained fatal spine and neck injuries while in transport.</p>
Mark Carlin
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McCarthyism

<p>We have largely discussed McCarthy and McCarthyism in class. You have some reading on him and the rise of the Red Scare int the 50's along with reading about how this impacted Playwright Arthur Miller in his writing of <em>The Crucilbe</em>. Here are some interesting artifacts about McCarthyism and the red scare of the 50"s. Look through and see if anything can inform you about the nature of collective fear.</p>
Mark Carlin
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Rosewood Riots

<p>These are pictures and images associated with the Rosewood Riots, which took place on January 1, 1923 after rumors spread through a neighboring white community that a black man from Rosewood had sexually assaulted a white woman.</p>
Mark Carlin
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Tulsa Race Riots

<p>Here are Images related to the Tulsa Race Riots</p>
Mark Carlin
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Wounded Knee

<p>Wounded Knee is the site of a massacre of more than 300 Native peoples on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. After years of defeat in the Indian Wars, a number of natives were dispirited and found hope and consolation in Paiute Indian Prophet, Wovoka, and his Ghost Dance. It was hoped that the followers of the"Ghost Dance Religion", through their dance could rid the land of the white man and return Indians to their glory. The dance was so ecstatic and fevered, that it scared many in the military. The dance was banned by the government. On December 29, 1890 after some confrontations had already taken place and unnerved the military, a Ghost Dance was performed. The 7th Cavalry which had already been called in to "keep the peace" became alarmed. They moved in to "disarm" the largely disarmed Natives and things went out of control. As many as 350, mostly unarmed Native Americans, including at least 65 women, and 24 children were slaughtered. Some were killed miles away trying to flee the carnage. The existing fear of "Savage Indians", coupled with a growing fear of the Ghost Dance Cult, triggered by clashes in the preceding day led to the the panic driven massacre. </p><p>Wounded knee stands as a symbol of the harm that comes from a lethal combination of ignorance and widespread cultural fear. <span></span><br /></p>
Mark Carlin
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