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Secret Fighters Against American Extremism: Resisting Prejudice After World War II
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- When:
- July 22, 2026 ยท 6:45 PM
- Where:
- Washington, DC
- Source:
- Baltimore Sun Events Calendar
Historian Steven J. Ross contends that Americans like to believe the end of World War II brought a new era of tolerance in the United States, but antisemitism and racism went up, not down, after the war's end. Violence broke out in cities across the country, and the number of organized extremist groups more than doubled from 1940 to 1946. Ross reveals how key leaders of these groups worked together to launch deadly attacks on Jews and African Americans across the U.S. during this period, while e
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