1868 ⟶ Lynching of Samuel Bierfield
Samuel Bierfield (d. 15 August 1868) is believed to be the f...
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🪢 Lynching of Samuel Bierfield
Samuel Bierfield (d. 15 August 1868) is believed to be the first Jew lynched in the United States. Bierfield and his African-American clerk, Lawrence Bowman, were apprehended in Bierfield's store in Franklin, Tennessee and fatally shot by a group of masked men believed to belong to the Ku Klux Klan, on 15 August 1868. No one was ever convicted of the crime, however.⟶
LynchingKu Klux KlanUnited States19th CenturyViolenceAntisemitismBierfieldTennessee
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🚪 Pogroms in Southern Russia and Mass Emigration
Pogroms sweep southern Russia, propelling mass Jewish emigration from the Pale of Settlement: about 2 million Russian Jews emigrated in period 1880–1924, many of them to the United States (until the National Origins Quota of 1924 and Immigration Act of 1924 largely halted immigration to the U.S. from Eastern Europe and Russia). The Russian word "pogrom" becomes international.⟶
PogromViolenceEmigrationRussiaUnited States19th centuryMass ViolencePale of Settlement
RussiaUnited States🔥 Rise of Antisemitism in the US led by the Ku Klux Klan
Outbreak of antisemitism in United States, led by Ku Klux Klan.⟶
AntisemitismKu Klux KlanHate GroupsUnited StatesRacismWhite SupremacyEarly 20th CenturyNativism
United States📖 Bishop Alma Bridwell White's "The Ku Klux Klan in Prophecy"
The Ku Klux Klan in Prophecy is a 144-page book written by Bishop Alma Bridwell White in 1925 and illustrated by Reverend Branford Clarke. This book primarily espouses White's deep fear and hatred of the Roman Catholic Church while also promoting antisemitism, racism against African Americans, White supremacy, and Women's equality.⟶
Ku Klux KlanAntisemitismWhite SupremacyRacismReligious ExtremismUnited StatesPropagandaEarly 20th Century
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