Anti-immigrant think tanks and advocacy groups operated on the margins until Trump became president. Now they have molded not only the GOP but also Democrats in their image.
While Donald Trump and J.D. Vance try to tear an Ohio town apart, Ohioans themselves have a more heartening response. While the nasty headlines swirl around them, Springfielders and Ohioans are making a point of saying no to Trump and Vance’s message
Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans were clashing over race, religion, immigration and presidential candidates.
"Don't get caught there," The legacy of sundown towns is not confined to the pages of history books - but is alive and well in 2024. Deep racial disparities are evidence that the intent of sundown towns still lingers today.
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Strikers win big (in 1913). Strikebreaking's deadly cost (1918). No way to win an election (1968). Reign of terror in Georgia (1868). Better late than never (1988). FBI at its worst (1968). Public health catastrophe (1918).
Terror reigns in Georgia (in 1868). The First Great Depression (1873). First-ever Vietnam War protest (1963). The Redcoats are coming! (1768). A worthless piece of paper (1823). Nuke fallout treaty (1963). Deadly troop train (1918)
Where can African Americans find this lost golden age? Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? Do we fast forward to the Red Summer, Jim Crow laws, “strange fruit” hanging from poplar trees?
Deadly weather in 2005. KKK run out of town in 1923. FBI informers mess up in 1973. The telephone industry discovers women workers in 1878. TV news is ready for prime time in 1963. Frederick Douglass frees himself in 1838. Ethnic cleansing in 1838.
"First Amendment, what's that?" in 1918. GIs sit-in, go to jail in 1968. An invasion is an invasion in 1968. KKK run out of town in 1923. Lead paint deadly in 1983 (and it still is). Trying to outlaw war in 1928. March on Washington in 1963.
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