In anticipation of African American History month in February, Mr. Holden offers a disturbing examination through PowerPoint presentation showing how lynching kept down fearful Black Americans and, in the face of massive discrimination (North and South), how Jim Crow Laws prevented Blacks from the achievements and successes they deserved as Americans.

Please note that graphic content may be shown.

There will also be a discussion about how Hitler and the Nazis copied Jim Crow Laws in the U.S. to create their dreaded Nuremberg Laws in 1935.

Recommended Reading: Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman. 

All events are tentatively scheduled and subject to change. Please contact Stone Harbor Library to confirm any and all event details and updates.

 About the Instructor

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

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.