RADIO MIAMI INTER LIVE FROM HIALEAH FL
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CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT
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because of their religion. America’s largely Protestant population feared that Catholic immigrants threatened the American way of life. Anti-Catholic Iowans, the American Protective Association (APA)in 1887. By the mid-1890’s, the APA claimed two (2) million across the nation. Among others activities the APA spread rumors that Catholics were preparing to take over the country. Discrimination was also based on race. In California and other western states, Asians struggled against prejudice and resentment. White Americans claimed that Chinese immigrants who worked for low wages took away jobs. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion act in 1882 to prevent Chinese immigrants from entering the United States. America’s westward expansion created opportunities for thousands of Japanese immigrants who came to United States to work as railroad on farm laborers. Like the Chinese before them, Japanese immigrants encountered prejudice. California would not allow them to become citizens. In 1906 in San Francisco, the school board tried to make Japanese children attend a separate school for Asians until President Roosevelt stepped in to prevent such segregation.
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In 1908,violence erupted in Springfield, Illinois, when a white woman claimed to have been attacked by an African American man. Authorities jailed the man. The woman then admitted that her accusation was untrue. By the time white town people had formed an angry mob. Armed with axes and guns, the mob stormed through African American neighborhoods, destroying businesses and driving people from their homes. Rioters lynched two African American men and injured dozens more, yet no one was ever punished for these violent crimes. The Springfield riot shocked the nation and highlighted the deep racial divisions in American life. The riot took place in thhometown of Abraham Lincoln, the president who signed the Emancipation declaration. African Americans were no longer enslaving- but were still pursued by pretend racial hatred. During 1800’s, the overwhelming majority of Americans were white, Protestants, and had been born in the United States. Many Americans believed that the United States should remain a white Protestant nation. Non-white, non- Protestant and non- native residents often faced discrimination.
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last update 11/16/2004
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