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Welcome to the Athens College Library Racism & Persecution Wiki!

 

 

  • Why are we creating a wiki?

The purpose of this wiki is for Mrs. Petridi's GYM II ESL (BS10) students to share with each other all that we researched about the history of racism and persecution throughout history and around the world.

 

During the project, we researched in-depth episodes and people in American history. We examined the life of slaves and learned that Former slaves and free men who fought on the Union side of the Civil War faced discrimination and unequal treatment. We saw that the Underground Railroad was the only hope of many slaves; and how Harriet Tubman conducted a lucky few to freedom. We were sad to learn that even when the Civil War had ended and slavery was abolished, Jim Crow laws assured that black Americans would never be truly free until people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King took a stand and forced the government to make sure that all men were created equal.

 

We examined the cause of the Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and saw how men like John Brown were willing to die for their beliefs. We looked at the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Mohandas Gandhi how their beliefs led to their assassinations.

 

We also researched how other groups of American were treated by society. For example, we found out that many other groups of people like Mexican and Irish immigrants received less than a warm welcome to America. And we also examined the relocation centers that were set up to hold Americans considered to enemies of their own country during World War II.

 

We also looked at the Rights of Women. We saw that it took the courage of Susan B Anthony and the persistance of the Women's Liberation Movement to make sure that women could be full citizens of the world.

 

Finally, we examined the situation around the world. We looked back in history at the treatment of jews, and learned about the suffering of Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi. We learned about the system of apartheid in South Africa and its inequalities. Specifically we saw how it segregated people and forced some on to homelands. We saw that discrimination still exists today in places like India with its caste sytem and in the treatment of Aborigines in Australia.

 

 

 

This wiki was created by Shannon Petras for the Hellenic American Education Foundation Library. All contents are copyright HAEF and its students.

 

Last updated 31 May 2007

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