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Rock Springs Massacre Victims Plead for Justice
Even in the late nineteenth-century American West, a notably violent region, the violence directed against Chinese immigrants was shocking. The Union Pacific Railroad employed 331 Chinese and 150 whites in their coal mine in Rock Springs, Wyoming. [...]
Tags: Chinese Immigration, Riots
Item Type: Government Document
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
African American Workers: Conflict on the Homefront
In this lesson students analyze a propaganda poster, a photograph, and a poem to understand the tensions unleashed by the entry of African Americans into the industrial workforce during World War II.
Tags: Interdisciplinary, Lessons in Looking, Literature in the History Classroom, Riots, World War II
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
New York City Police Respond to the Draft Riots
This account, originally published as a series of articles for the New York Times, details the activities of police in the 6th precinct during the 1863 Draft Riots. The 6th precinct was in the northern part of the 6th Ward, home of New York's "Five [...]
Tags: New York City Draft Riots, Riots
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)