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1921-1923:
In Springfield, Ohio, 14 people were shot and wounded during a race riot in 1921.
In 1923, 32 whites were arrested for assaulting police guards at a newly integrated school in Springfield, Ohio.
In 1923, over 7,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) marched down Main Street in Dayton.
In India, Ghandi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience.
Mussolini formed Fascist government in Italy.
1924-1926:
By 1924, approximately 15,000 people, or about one out of every 10 Daytonians, had joined the KKK.
Hitler was imprisoned for nine months after the Nazi Party failed in a violent attempt to take over the German government. While in prison, Hitler writes Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
Hitler reorganized the Nazi Party, which had grown to 27,000 members.
Black doctors in Cleveland, Ohio, had their homes bombed and stoned by mobs after they moved into "white" neighborhoods.
John Scopes went on trial for teaching evolution in Tennessee. |