Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group:;xNLx;a) Killing members of the group;;xNLx;b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;;xNLx;c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring its physical destruction in whole or in part;;xNLx;d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;;xNLx;e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.;xNLx;;xNLx;
As the number of Jews increases, so do the discriminatory acts against them.
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He was the first Jew to serve in the U.S. Congress. He was referred to as that "alien Jew delegate from Florida" and his citizenship was questioned because of his religion.
He serves as a confederate soldier in the Civil War. He eventually settles in Pensacola where he was a founder of the state's first Jewish Synagogue.
by demobilized soldiers of the former Confederate Army who were devoted to public amusement through practical jokes and pranks. For many, the masked riders represent the expression of a southern culture from a golden age that was suppressed by northern domination in the wake of the Civil War.
Samuel Fleischman, a resident of the state since the 1840s, is summoned to appear before a group of 20 citizens of Marianna, FL. He is told that it would be safest for him and for the town for him to leave without delay because he had defended blacks and given credit and employment to freed slaves. He protested, but was give until sundown to leave. At sundown, the group calls for him at his store and escorts him out of town. He is warned that if he returned he would be killed. He goes to Tallahassee where he asked for protection from state officials. Getting no support he goes back to Marianna. The next morning his body is found in the road on the outskirts of town. Hi assassins were never caught, but many people said it was the Klan.
Jews around the state form their own social and school clubs, often because they were restricted from the gentile groups in the communities.
During World War I, a large percentage of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from their homeland by the Turkish government of the Ottoman Empire, and sent into the desert to starve. Women and children were abducted and abused, and many people were murdered outright. The atrocities ceased after the war, but the massacres and forced expulsions resumed in 1920 - 1923. The Turkish government supported the campaign, as it was in favor of creating a racially pure Turkish state. Out of an extimated Armenian population of 2 million in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of World War I, approximately 1.5 million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. Photographs from Armenian National Institute, Inc., courtesy Sybil Stevens (daughter of Armin T. Wegner). Wegner Collection, Deutches Literaturachiv, Marbach, & USHMM.
At the end of World War I, antisemitism increases sharply. Throughout the state of Florida, restrictive land covenants prevent Jews from living or vacationing in many areas.
In January, 1923, the town of Rosewood in central Florida is destroyed by vigilantes after a white woman claimed to have been attacked by a black man. All of the residents' homes were destroyed and it is estimated that 26 people, including children, were killed and buried in a mass grave. After a special grand jury investigation was unable to find any evidence (despite 13 eye witness accounts, the incident was largely forgotten. This episode creates headline stories in newspapers across Florida and the nation, especially in the black press. Soon after it fades into obscurity.
