Introduction
The 1930’s is a decade that experienced one of the worst, if not the worst, economic conditions in the history the United States of America. This decade is the Great Depression era. Everyone, rich and poor, suffered during this time. People lost their homes and their jobs, mostly due to unemployment. African Americans have been considered less than their white counterparts prior to the Great Depression, and in this time of struggled their deaths could have been viewed as a benefit to the economy because there were slowly becoming less people in need of jobs. As the 1930s neared a close, conditions began to improve across the nation, but much did not change for African Americans, especially not for the black man. During the year …show more content…
The newspaper states that he “mysteriously disappeared” (7) from the jail and after only three days the authorities ceased searching for him. At the end of the article there is a mention, moreso of an afterthought, that other prisoners said that they had seen someone enter the jail and carry off the young black man who was never to be seen again. In reading this article there did not appear to be any sense of urgency to find young Jim Welcher. There is a statement from Solicitor General Hubert Calhoun saying that there would be an investigation the following day, however the information given in the informs the reader that the guards were either not properly keeping survalince on the inmates, or allowed an inmate to be kidnapped for him to have disappeared. There is also not a mention of a possible escape, which leads to the assumption that Welcher’s disappearance was not a mystery at all, because even during slavery when there was a threat to the white community by people like Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey urgent messages were sent out to the city. So this circumstance could instead be a warning to other African Americans to think twice before attacking a white man, as did Jim Welcher. This intentional negligence is a demonstration of how unimportnt a black man’s life was during this time period because law enforcement officials were unconcerned with his whereabouts or his physical
The 1930’s is a decade that experienced one of the worst, if not the worst, economic conditions in the history the United States of America. This decade is the Great Depression era. Everyone, rich and poor, suffered during this time. People lost their homes and their jobs, mostly due to unemployment. African Americans have been considered less than their white counterparts prior to the Great Depression, and in this time of struggled their deaths could have been viewed as a benefit to the economy because there were slowly becoming less people in need of jobs. As the 1930s neared a close, conditions began to improve across the nation, but much did not change for African Americans, especially not for the black man. During the year …show more content…
The newspaper states that he “mysteriously disappeared” (7) from the jail and after only three days the authorities ceased searching for him. At the end of the article there is a mention, moreso of an afterthought, that other prisoners said that they had seen someone enter the jail and carry off the young black man who was never to be seen again. In reading this article there did not appear to be any sense of urgency to find young Jim Welcher. There is a statement from Solicitor General Hubert Calhoun saying that there would be an investigation the following day, however the information given in the informs the reader that the guards were either not properly keeping survalince on the inmates, or allowed an inmate to be kidnapped for him to have disappeared. There is also not a mention of a possible escape, which leads to the assumption that Welcher’s disappearance was not a mystery at all, because even during slavery when there was a threat to the white community by people like Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey urgent messages were sent out to the city. So this circumstance could instead be a warning to other African Americans to think twice before attacking a white man, as did Jim Welcher. This intentional negligence is a demonstration of how unimportnt a black man’s life was during this time period because law enforcement officials were unconcerned with his whereabouts or his physical