Mabel Osgood Wright 35mm Slides (from original glass slides)
Rights
Fairfield Museum and History Center, all rights reserved. Please contact us for information about reproductions.
Format
JPEG; from 35mm slide. Original glass slide 3.25 x 4 inches.
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Poster showing soldiers wielding bayonets, with American flag and flame-lit sky above.]]>2018-05-29T10:55:38-04:00
Title
"Nothing Stops these Men"
Subject
World War I
Description
“Nothing stops these men, let nothing stop you”
Poster showing soldiers wielding bayonets, with American flag and flame-lit sky above.
Across the country, these fears also led to large-scale deportations, attacks on foreign-language newspapers and magazines, and hostility towards all things foreign or politically radical (including immigrant organizations, newspapers, and languages). Vigilante attacks against German-Americans increased, including harassment, beatings, and even lynching. Stores owned by German-Americans were attacked, performers were driven off stage, and many with German names changed them. German, the most widely taught foreign language in 1914, virtually disappeared from high school and college curricula. In Connecticut, the governor banned instruction in foreign languages in elementary schools.