Week of February 21, Friday Lecture

I. Disillusionment and Reaction

II. Immigration Restriction

• Sources of Nativism
  James Phelan on the Unassimilability of the Japanese
  The KKK on Immigration (MSU Special Collections)
• Progressive Era Science
• The Problem Was The New Sources of Immigrants
• Closing the Door

III. Intolerance

• The Jewish Question
  Henry Ford's The International Jew
• Anti-Black Riots
  IMAGE: Chicago Race Riots, 1919
• The KKK
  IMAGE: William Simmons
  IMAGE: Hiram Evans
  IMAGE: Still from Birth of a Nation

IV. 20s Cultural Reaction

A. The Fundamentalist Revolt (Scopes Monkey Trial)
IMAGE: Darrow and Bryan

B. Prohibition: the Last Progressive Reform
IMAGE: "The Noble Experiment"
IMAGE: The Speakeasy

V. Understanding the Reaction

A. The Social Context

B. Preserving Old Values

C. Cultural Conflict.

D. The Twenties

VI. The Future

return to America and the First World War