John Edward Bruce and Jacob Riss readings both had to do with how life was in the 1800’s and also shed more light on the things that were going on during that time. As for John Bruce, he explained the deaths of African Americans; Jacob Riss document explained how life was for people as for poverty and living standards. After further reading and more research, I concluded that many of the things still exist in today’s society. Jacob Riss article explained the lives of people who stayed in poverty and in lower income homes. Furthermore, he mentioned about many parts of New York some of the places he mentioned in the reading were :The Bends, Jew town, different shops, Bandits Roost, Bayar’s Street and the Bottle Alley; each of these places
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In this article there were valid records of all the different lynching’s that took place; at this time lynching, African American Men was a norm for Caucasian men. Furthermore, the article was talking about the difference between African American crime and Caucasian crime; one question that was asked in the reading was “Is the American idea and conception of justice fairness?” For me personally I do not think that justice is fair I think one race gets away with more and that is proven by all that is going on today. By the same token, I found it interesting that Chicago Tribune New Paper kept a daily record of the lynching for the year of 1900 approximately 117 persons were lynched out of that 117 only eighteen were actually convicted of a crime. I find this interesting because the fact that a News Paper would keep a record of something like this is mind-boggling because it is like this something that they should be proud about and or celebrated. Regarding this, the article also had different categories of the lynching’s some examples were Plot to kill Caucasians, suspected robbery, Rape, Attacking a Caucasian and many more the crazy thing about this was that all these African Americans were killed by mobs of Caucasian men for alleged crime and not by any process of the
In this article there were valid records of all the different lynching’s that took place; at this time lynching, African American Men was a norm for Caucasian men. Furthermore, the article was talking about the difference between African American crime and Caucasian crime; one question that was asked in the reading was “Is the American idea and conception of justice fairness?” For me personally I do not think that justice is fair I think one race gets away with more and that is proven by all that is going on today. By the same token, I found it interesting that Chicago Tribune New Paper kept a daily record of the lynching for the year of 1900 approximately 117 persons were lynched out of that 117 only eighteen were actually convicted of a crime. I find this interesting because the fact that a News Paper would keep a record of something like this is mind-boggling because it is like this something that they should be proud about and or celebrated. Regarding this, the article also had different categories of the lynching’s some examples were Plot to kill Caucasians, suspected robbery, Rape, Attacking a Caucasian and many more the crazy thing about this was that all these African Americans were killed by mobs of Caucasian men for alleged crime and not by any process of the