15 minutes. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Last time, we looked broadly at the rise of hatred during world war i and we looked at immigration restriction, which was in some ways related to that, and a little bit about the activities of the ku klux klan and we spent a lot of time on the translation of the forgeries known as the protocols of the elders of lyon. And we mentioned some of the antiimmigrant rhetoric connected with prohibition. What i want to do today is focus on the person who really did more than anyone else to fan the flames of antisemitism in the 1920s, and that was none other than the famous american industrialist henry ford. Henry ford is a great hero to many americans. There were lots of people who wanted henry ford to run for president in 1924. But as we will see, jews, for understandable reasons perceived henry ford to be an enemy. Now i trust many of you know at least something about henry ford. Let me give a little bit of background on henry ford. He is in e
Education. My dad a fifth grade education. They were seeking better opportunities for their children. They work very hard, and sacrificed, like so many will do in this country, because they wanted a better promise for this country. They really taught us important values that have been our guide for me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. They taught us the importance of family, of faith, of Community Hard work, sacrifice, honesty, integrity. All of those were important values they shared with us. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on q a. Next, Brandeis University professor Jonathan Tsarnaev talks about how industrialist henry ford founded and supported a newspaper which published antijewish articles. Henry Fords International weekly, the dearborn independent, published an article in 1920 describing the International Jew as the worlds foremost problem. The articles were later published as a series of books. This class is about an hour and 15 minutes. All right. Good afternoon
“The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our prevalent notions of the character of God, the great moral governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions.” (William McGuffey, d. May 4, 1873, professor at the University of Virginia, president of Ohio University, and author of McGuffey’s Readers; earstohear.net)