Underlying Causes of Conflict

Guiding Questions For Sources

• What factors do these articles point to in trying to understand issues underlying tensions between native and non-native groups in Lawrence over time?

• How are these issues similar and different for Irish immigrants in the mid-1850s and Latino immigrants in the 1980s?

“Poverty, Racism Underlie Lawrence Riots” August 12, 1984 Christian Science Monitor by Mark Clayton

Andover Advertiser July 1, 1854
Memorial Hall Library

Lawrence Eagle Tribune March 18 1981

“All our roots are elsewhere”

Lawrence History Center Newspaper Clippings