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Lynching in America and the Red Summer of 1919

Instructed by Robert Holden

Registration opens Monday, May 23rd at 9:00 am.

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This power point 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.

(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, one book (presentation at UT Library in December, (and is currently awaiting finalizing/publishing his second book about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them visas to Shanghai. This will be a young adult non-fiction book.)

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