Internet Resources

AIDS-Related Stigma

• Search "AIDS stigma," AIDS discrimination," or "Ryan White"
• Fight AIDS, Not People with AIDS!
  

African Americans--see also School Segregation

• Search "blacks lynching" or "African Americans lynching"
• History of Lynching in the United States ~ Scroll down to the "Reasons Given for Black Lynchings." From the University of Cincinnati
• Lynchings in America ~ from the Library of Long Island University.

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Censorship of:

• Art, music, books, libraries, religion, school curricula, school textbooks, the Internet, films, public performances, newspapers, etc.
• Search "_________ censorship," "intellectual freedom," etc.
• Challenged and Banned Books ~ Information from the American Library Association.
• Family Friendly Libraries ~ An organization interested in changing the way that libraries and librarians look at the idea of intellectual freedom and censorship.

Consumer Fads/Hysteria

• Search "fads," "fad diets," "toy fads," "consumer fads," "consumer hysteria," "advertising," "marketing"
• Consumer Craziness ~ Commentary and timeline from Mother Jones, "an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting."
• Fads: Cashing in on Crazy Ideas ~ Includes a timeline and history of successful, gross, and failed fads.

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Gay/Lesbian and Homophobia--see also AIDS-related Stigma

• Search "Homophobia," "Stonewall Riots," "White Night Riots," "Matthew Shepard," "Gay agenda," "Homosexual agenda"
• Family Research Council ~ Use the Search box in the upper right hand corner.
• Stonewall and Beyond ~ An online edition of a Columbia University Libraries exhibition held from May 25 to September 17, 1994 in conjunction with the international celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
  

Immigration and Immigrants

• Search "Immigration policy," "United States immigration policy," "___________ Immigrants"
• The American Jewish Experience ~ from the National Humanities Center
• FAIR ~ Federation for American Immigration Reform
• Haymarket Square Riot ~ Scroll down. "The Haymarket bombing triggered a national wave of fear; public officials, civic leaders, the press, and some union leaders joined in equating foreign birth with anarchism and terror." From the University of Madison.
• Haymarket Affair ~ Chicago Anarchists on Trial ~ from the Library of Congress.
• Immigration Policy ~ Immigration Policy since 1965; Article from the database, History Resource Center: U.S.

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Japanese Americans

• Search "Japanese American Internment"
• Japanese American Internment ~ From the National Asian American Telecommunications Association.
• Japanese American Internment ~ Ansel Adams's Photographs at Manzanar. From the Library of Congress.
• Japanese Americans and the Constitution ~ From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  

Native Americans--Trail of Tears

• Search "Trail of Tears," "Cherokee Trail of Tears," "Native American land cessations"
• Cherokee Trail of Tears ~ A rather commercial site, but has great images--paintings, sketches, etc.
• Trail of Tears Painting ~ Brief information and painting from PBS.

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McCarthyism

• Search "McCarthyism," "Red Scare," "1950s," "anti-Communism"
• McCarthyism ~ Brief overview from PBS, the Public Broadcasting System.
• McCarthyism ~ Excerpts from the book: THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM: A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS by Ellen Schrecker (Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1994)
  

Racial Rioting

• Search "Race Riot" or "Race Riots"
• Search for a specific race riot such as "Tulsa Race Riot of 1921" or "Detroit Riots of 1967"
  

School Segregation

• Search "Brown v. Board of Education," "School Segregation," "School Desegregation"
• Brown v. Board of Education ~ See the commentary articles on the right side-bar. Information from NPR, National Public Radio.
• Brown@50: Fulfilling the Promise ~ Howard University School of Law
• Separate is Not Equal ~ from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

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September 11th -- See also Terrorism

• Search "Muslims and Islam after 911," "Fear of Muslims and Islam after 911," "Arab-Americans after 911"
  

Terrorism

• Search "Intellectual freedom," "Personal privacy," "Privacy rights," "Terrorism," "Terrorism fears"
• The USA Patriot Act ~ from the United States Department of Justice
• The USA Patriot Act ~ from EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
  

Y2K

• Search "Y2K

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