While doing some research in Chronicling America, I stumbled on this rather shocking article from "The Anaconda Standard" (Anaconda, Mont.) November 19, 1899. Reprinted from the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
The article asserts that the black race in the United States is on the path to extinction due to a steady decrease in their population compared to the white population.
It details a variety of racist themes of the era - clearly putting the cause of the decline on the inferiority of Black Americans.
If you are looking for a source to teach either the history of racial segregation or the history of racial prejudice and stereotypes - this is it.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036012/1899-11-19/ed-1/seq-8/
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Interesting. At the same time, there were boycotts against Asian owned businesses in Montana. Seems like it was a hotbed of white supremacist ideology. No one ever associates the west with racism and Klan activities, but it was pretty rampant.
Further west, you get to Oregon. Historically racist
Colorado in the 1920s and '30s was awful. My grandparents had a cross burned on their lawn. The Klan used to go to the County fair in their robes.
The photo in this article was taken less than a 1/2 mile from my grandparents' farm. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-story-behind-this-mystifying-photo-of-kkk-members-at-a-colorado-fair
These are images from the museum I worked at in Golden, Colorado. The mesa where the images are taken had a dance hall on top. Paul Whiteman's Orchestra was the in-house music. Down at the bottom of the mesa was the Rock Rest, a tavern owned by a Black man and an Irish man. George Morrison's Orchestra played there. His lead singer was Hattie McDaniel! The dance hall is gone, the Rock Rest is still there serving fabulous burgers and a century of history!
The Ferris Wheel photo is unsettling. Wow. Here’s another normalization of Klan Kulture that reminds us of America’s racist history https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/kkk-summer-kamp
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