Arab Americans and Anti-Immigrant Discrimination in the Early 1900s | Arab Indianapolis

Learn about the attempts of Arabic-speaking immigrants to achieve financial and social success in the United States and the discrimination that they faced. Using video, teaching tips, and discussion questions, students come to understand the role of the KKK and immigration policy in shaping the life of these immigrants and their children.

Arab American author and historian Edward Curtis interviews Dr. Paul Mullins, urban archaeologist, to discover the environmental conditions in which first Arab immigrants lived and then explores how the social and mobility of Arab Americans was challenged by the second rise of the KKK in the 1920s.