Event
The Independent’s campaign against Aaron Sapiro
Second campaign in the Dearborn Independent (from April 1924), with articles that falsely claimed Aaron Sapiro was part of a conspiracy to control American farmers.
- Dates
- 1924–1925
- The Dearborn Independent20 scenes
- How are The Independent’s campaign against Aaron Sapiro and … connected?
Connections 3
involved
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Aaron Sapiro
its target
Scholarship & press
1
The paper’s charge was false: Sapiro’s suit listed 141 libellous statements in it.
- The Dearborn Independent published it Primary record 12
caused
- Sapiro v. Ford Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1924–1925 The Independent’s campaign against Aaron Sapiro
Proof 2 sources
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Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Scholarship & press
The articles repeatedly claimed that Sapiro was part of a larger Jewish conspiracy to control American farmers.
In April 1924, Ford’s newspaper published multiple articles that accused Jews of conspiring to exploit American farmers.
In April 1925, the case of Sapiro v. Ford opened in Detroit’s federal court.
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Finding Aid for Dearborn Independent Graphic Files, 1922-1926, Accession 91.98, Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford, Sep 2013.
Primary record
aired in two campaigns in 1920-1921 and 1924-1925.
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