Joseph Holloway Analysis

These laws had done some pretty awful things such as segregation and allowing crimes to go unpunished, and I can sit here and go on and on preaching trying to act like I knew and can imagine what it was like but I feel these personal accounts will do a much better job than I ever could. Joseph Holloway was only nine in the summer of 1961 when he and his family were traveling from Los Angeles to Louisiana to visit his grandmother who was dying of cancer. The family stopped at a gas station in central Texas for food and other items. They walked into the restaurant and sat at the wrong table. The manager quickly walked over and said “We don’t sever or sell to niggers here at this table. You all have to go around toe side of the station and we …show more content…
Joseph’s uncle quickly apologized then kindly asked where the restroom for the coloreds were, to which the owner pointed to the middle of a cow field and said “See right there, that’s the one for niggers”. Now thankfully this encounter did not last long for the family knew not to stay by nightfall so they got out of there, visited their grandmother and hurried back to Los Angeles. This story was an example of the verbal abuse African Americans were subjected to, the next one is the physical abuse and unlawful use of the justice system that allowed guilty whites get away with a very evil crime that should have been prosecuted. On a damp night in Alabama in September 1944 twenty four year old Recy Taylor was walking home with two other worshippers from the African American congregation when all of a sudden a green Chevrolet rolls by and their routine journey takes a horrifying turn. Wielding knives and guns, seven white men got of the car , one shoves taylor in the backseat and they ride off, her panicked friends run to tell the sheriff. After parking in a deserted grove they order the young wife and mother out at gun point then take turns raping