Social issues comparrison 22.Oct.2009

A social issue in the 1920, as stated by History Alive, is that the KKK started to attack immigrants. This clan is so powerful that it can steal a guy out of jail. They stole Leo Frank out of state prison and hanged him. Leo Frank was jailed for murdering a young girl. Zinn agrees that the KKK is active. For example, the KKK is powerful enough to overpower a bit organization like the NCAP. But Schweikart says something completely different. He says that the number of members of the KKK is dropping. But we don’t know if the numbers are dropping or the percentage is dropping. He says this to show that the KKK isn’t something big to be worried about.
History Alive stated that a social problem in the 1920s was that the the liberals wanted to protect the minorities by starting the ACLU. This Union was formed to support freedom of speech, and they defended unpopular minorities. Another union is the NAACP. But Zinn stated that the NAACP could not do anything because of the powerful KKK. The NAACP is powerless in front of KKK mobs. Scheiwkart disagrees with History Alive by saying that liberals are hypocrites and they can’t do anything because they are hypocrites. They are hypercritical because they send their kids to elite, expensive all-white nativist schools like Andover and Sidney Friends. The liberals have no idea what it is like to be a minority, so they don’t know what the minorities actually need.

Another major problem in 1920’s was that the government supported the Nativists by enacting the immigration act in 1922. History Alive supports this by saying that the immigration law allowed 3% of each race from the 1890’s to immigrate into the U.S. Zinn completely supports this By saying that only 100 people are allowed from Chine and 51,277 are allowed from Germany. He also gives limitations of other countries. Schweikart completely avoids this topic. But he does say that some sheriffs in The South are not-so-comical symbols of white racism.