Answer the questions below:

1: The Southern Poverty Law Center, which started out as a small civil rights firm, is now a large, internationally known organization devoted to tracking hate groups and pursuing civil and criminal remedies against hate. Go to the center's website (http://www.splcenter.org) and search for lynching. One of the locations to which you will be guided will provide you with details of the civil trials the center has pursued against acts of racial injustice, including modern-day lynchings. Conduct a case study of one of the incidents listed on the site. To find out more about the case, search online for information from local news media that covered the case. (It is probably best to use the plaintiffs' and/or victims names as the keywords.) Discuss how civil remedies have been used to wage a war against these criminal incidents.

2: While the majority of the anti-Semitism tracked by the ADL occurred in public places, a surprisingly high amount occurred in K-12 schools and college campuses. Why have educational locations been the seen of such a large proportion of anti-Semitism? Given that many schools teach the lessons of the Holocaust and emphasize lessons encouraging tolerance, why are schools such common settings for recent anti-Semitic incidents?

3: Visit the FBIs website on hate crimes (http://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes). Here, you will find a variety of resources that include statistics on hate crimes from 2011 through the most recent year available. You will also find links to other governmental agencies. Writ a brief essay on why this page is under the Civil Rights division of the FBI. How does this website track the history of hate crimes in the United States? This website links to the Victim Service Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. When you click on that link, what do you find specifically related to victims of hate crime?