Teaching about Nazi Race Purity Laws and Jim Crow Laws

Elissa Frankle, USHMM, August 2011

USHMM Resources

•Anti-Jewish Legislation•Blacks in Nazi Germany•Nazi Olympics•Propaganda•Podcasts

Anti-Jewish Legislation

Holocaust Encyclopedia:

“Anti-Jewish Legislation in Pre-War Germany”

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?

ModuleId=10005681

Anti-Jewish Legislation

List of selected laws:

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007459

How does a country isolate and exclude a population of its citizens?

Blacks in Nazi Germany

Africans and African-Americans in Germany:

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?

ModuleId=10005479

Nazi Olympics

Online Exhibit:http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/ online/

olympics/See particularly: Boycott Olympics Timeline of

Olympics vs. rest of Germany

Nazi Olympics

Holocaust Encyclopedia:

“Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936: African American Voices and Jim Crow America”

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?

ModuleId=10007088

Propaganda

Full online exhibit:

http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/exhibit.html

How does racism become part of the daily life and self-concept of the nation?

Podcasts and Interviews

Propaganda exhibit: Voices of the Excluded

http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/exhibit.html#/themes/defining-the-enemy/page2/

What does it mean to be an outsider?How does propaganda define

someone?What happens when people are

defined by others?

Podcasts and Interviews

Teaching about Anti-Semitism: Being an Outsider Group Activity

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/teaching/outsider/group/

Includes interviews and further resources.

How does injustice move someone from citizen to outcast?

Outside Resources on Jim Crow

Jim Crow Museum: http://www.ferris.edu/JIMCROW/menu.htm

Other Resources on Jim Crow

Southern Poverty Law Center:http://www.splcenter.org/

Includes resources on hate incidents and how to get involved in stopping them

Other Resources on Jim Crow

List of Jim Crow laws, compiled by Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site Interpretive Staff:

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/ jcrow02.htm

Other Ways to Involve Your Students: Children of the Lodz Ghetto Project

Children of the Lodz Ghetto Memorial Research Project

Children of the Lodz Ghetto Memorial Research Project

Children of the Lodz Ghetto Memorial Research Project

Get involved!

http://online.ushmm.org/lodzchildren

efrankle@ushmm.org