The government of Virginia forced them to move their synagogue in favor of a post office, even though there were large unused tracts of land available throughout the city. In 1921, the Ku Klux Klan warned that only 100 percent Americans, that is to say white Christian Americans, were welcome in Charlottesville, and faculty from the University of Virginia supported anti-Semitism from an eugenics standpoint, claiming that Jewish people were genetically inferior to whites. Jews were targeted during the Civil Rights Movement, and Charlottesville became the center of the divide as schools were desegregated.[12]