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'Extremism in America' by George Michael
I have selected age 170 of the Ebook "Extremism in America", wherein it discusses the effects that WW2 had on antisemitism. While Jews were primarily treated as second class citizens (they were not allowed in country clubs, or certain neighborhoods or schools) they received sympathy from the American people for what transpired during the holocaust. That sympathy had for a time weakened the hold that the KKK had on the American citizens because the likeness in racism that they shared with the German Nazi party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans (Links to an external site.)

The Wikipedia article I have chosen details the Japanese internment camps that were constructed throughout America during WW2. While citizens sympathized with the Jewish-Americans after hearing of the German Nazi parties' building of concentration camps, yet they had similar camps scattered across the country and failed to see the obvious similarities between the two. Japanese-American's would sometimes enlist and serve our military, only to return and be imprisoned for their ethnicity, many of whom were born here in America and/or had no affiliation to Japan. At the time, about 120,000 people were uprooted and became incarcerated in concentration camps on American soil.

The article definitely addresses a group that is often underrepresented.