You will "hunt" for answers to the questions provided using the Southern Poverty Law Center.
1. Identify the number of incidents and the type of each incident. Repeat this for the years 2011, 2007, and 2003.
Katy, TX
Fliers from the Original Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in a neighborhood.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 07/02/2014
Helotes, TX
David Malcolm Strickland, 27, was charged with capital murder, aggravated assault with a weapon and aggravated sexual assault for the 2012 attack on a 19-year-old lesbian, Mollie Olgin, because of her sexual orientation.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 06/19/2014
Springfield, TX
Brice Johnson, 19, was indicted on federal hate crime charges for allegedly assaulting a man in September because of his sexual orientation.
Type: Legal Developments
Reported: 05/14/2014
Rhome, TX
Fliers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left at residences in a neighborhood.
Type: Leafletting
Reported: 03/21/2014
Fort Worth, TX
Brice Johnson, 19, was charged with willfully causing bodily injury to a person because of sexual orientation for beating a gay man in September.
Type: Assault
Reported: 02/20/2014
To do: Now, report the data by year. Be sure to include both the number of incidents and the types of incidents. You may do this in a table format, or simply a listing format. After you have reported the data, call attention to [any] two interesting observations from this report.
2. In the Crosshairs - Browse through the latest issue. Choose one of the main stories (these will be listed first under ‘In This Issue'). Read the story.
To do: Summarize the story in 4 to 5 sentences.
3. Select ‘Death Penalty' from the Agenda Area drop menu. Choose one of the cases that interests you the most.
Beck v. Alabama
Date Filed: 01/01/1979
The United States Supreme Court struck down Alabama's "kill 'em or let 'em go" death penalty statute in a landmark decision that reversed the Alabama State Supreme Court and vacated the death sentences of plaintiff Gilbert Beck and 10 other men on death row.
To do: Summarize the case in 4 to 5 sentences.
4. Identify a state with 40+ active hate groups, a state with 20 to 25 active hate groups, and a state with less than 5 active hate groups.
To do: Explain why you think there is such a difference in the number of active hate groups among the three states you selected (be sure to identify the 3 states). Use only 3 to 4 sentences.
5. Choose one of the Ideologies.
Anti-Immigrant
Anti-immigrant hate groups are the most extreme of the hundreds of nativist and vigilante groups that have proliferated since the late 1990s, when anti-immigration xenophobia began to rise to levels not seen in the United States since the 1920s.
To do: Describe "purpose/s" of the ideology you chose.