SOURCE: "Henry Ford's Seven Years' Calumnies Against Jews," in History of Bigotry in the United States, Random House, Inc., 1943, pp. 333-48.

In the following essay, Myers examines the anti-Semitic articles Ford published in his newspaper The Dearborn Independent. The articles were originally published in a column entitled "The International Jew."

Parallel to certain years of the Ku Klux Klan a centralized and intensive agitation was carried on exclusively against Jews by a publication owned and financed by one of the richest and most conspicuous of American industrialists. This was Henry Ford. Born, in 1863, on a farm near Greenfield, Michigan, he had been reared there until the age of fifteen, when he entered upon a job in a Detroit machine shop, and for many years thereafter was a mechanic in various concerns. The automobile had been invented in France and some cars exported to America, but their expensiveness made...