Despite the efforts of the Klu Klux Klan and the Nazis to scare the "imperfect races" away from not wanting rights they still fought back and against the discrimination they got because of there race and choice of lifestyle.
RESISTANCE LEADERS
In the united states African Americans were tired of getting their rights banished and abused so they decided that it was time to fight back. Ida b wells helped a lot with that. Ida b. Wells was a African American journalist who started a anti-lynching campaign due to the lynching of her three friends lynched in Memphis Tennessee for opening a grocery store that competed with a store down the street that was white-owned. . Outraged, Wells-Barnett began a global anti-lynching campaign that raised awareness of the American injustice. with the Tuskegee institute , Ida started to document lynching's hoping to make the rest of the world aware of the lack of civil rights for the black community.
GERMANY
Across the world in Germany political activist that weren't in concentration camps started to fight back against the Nazis discrimination. Even risking getting put into the concentration camps themselves they fought back. Magnus Hirschfield was one of the many who fought against the discrimination of the homosexuals. After several years as a general practitioner in Magdeburg, In 1897, Hirschfield founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee with the publisher Max Spohr, the lawyer Eduard Oberg, and the writer Franz Joseph Von Bülow. The group aimed to undertake research to defend the rights of homosexuals and to repeal Paragraph 175, the section of the German penal code that had criminalized homosexuality. They argued that the law encouraged blackmail, and the motto of the Committee, "Justice through science", reflected Hirschfield's belief that a better scientific understanding of homosexuality would eliminate hostility toward homosexuals.
RESISTANCE LEADERS
In the united states African Americans were tired of getting their rights banished and abused so they decided that it was time to fight back. Ida b wells helped a lot with that. Ida b. Wells was a African American journalist who started a anti-lynching campaign due to the lynching of her three friends lynched in Memphis Tennessee for opening a grocery store that competed with a store down the street that was white-owned. . Outraged, Wells-Barnett began a global anti-lynching campaign that raised awareness of the American injustice. with the Tuskegee institute , Ida started to document lynching's hoping to make the rest of the world aware of the lack of civil rights for the black community.
GERMANY
Across the world in Germany political activist that weren't in concentration camps started to fight back against the Nazis discrimination. Even risking getting put into the concentration camps themselves they fought back. Magnus Hirschfield was one of the many who fought against the discrimination of the homosexuals. After several years as a general practitioner in Magdeburg, In 1897, Hirschfield founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee with the publisher Max Spohr, the lawyer Eduard Oberg, and the writer Franz Joseph Von Bülow. The group aimed to undertake research to defend the rights of homosexuals and to repeal Paragraph 175, the section of the German penal code that had criminalized homosexuality. They argued that the law encouraged blackmail, and the motto of the Committee, "Justice through science", reflected Hirschfield's belief that a better scientific understanding of homosexuality would eliminate hostility toward homosexuals.