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can history. Visitors to the museum’s website can learn about the
story of the white entertainer Thomas Dartmouth Rice and his cre-
ation of the buffoonish field slave character he named “Jim Crow.”
Mapping Police Violence—https://mappingpoliceviolence.org
Organized by three data scientists, the website maintained by
the group tracks police violence against black citizens. The web-
site provides statistical data on police shootings, broken down
by location of the shootings and ethnicities of the victims. Data
highlighted by the website shows, for example, that many police
shootings occur in communities with low crime rates.
Southern Poverty Law Center—www.splcenter.org
The Alabama-based organization monitors hate groups in Ameri-
ca. The group has made copies of its publication The Alt-Right on
Campus: What Students Need to Know available on its website.
The guide helps college students identify alt-right propaganda
and how to respond should a student be approached by an alt-
right activist on campus.
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