The Politics Of Unreason - Right - Wing Extremism In America, 1790 - 1970

Creator: Anti-Defamation League Of B'nai B'rith

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the efforts of the right-wing extremists to preserve their status by advocating the denial of rights to minority groups. Discusses movements including the anti-Masonic party of the 1820's and 1830's, the Know-Nothings, the anti-Catholic American Protective Association of the 1890's, the emergence of anti-Semitism in the 1890's, the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society. Analyzes the impact of these movements on the mainstream of American two-party politics.

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