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Lynching in America

and the Red Summer of 1919 Instructed by Robert Holden

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Please note that graphic content may be shown.

This power point (complete with many hyperlinks!) will show the terrible state of race relations in the United States after World War One, where hundreds of Blacks were lynched across America. It is the period which led to the kind of violence perpetrated against the black community in Tulsa in 1921. The program leads up to Tulsa. This is a shameful period of American history!

Holden has a detailed power point to share, followed by A short film about the period.

Note: It wasn’t until 2022 that Lynching was outlawed as a federal hate crime with severe punishments for perpetrators! (This program is not for the faint of heart! Heart-rending, horrible images will be shown.)

Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)

He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.

He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai (about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them exit visas), both of which are available to check out from the library.

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