The report I am analyzing is entitled “Lynch Law” written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett in 1893. Wells-Barnett was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, six months before President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 freeing all enslaved persons held in bondage in the borderline southern States. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a cook, and were very involved in Republican Party activities during Reconstruction. Both her parents valued education so she had the opportunity to attend Rust College at a young age. When she was 16 her parents and her youngest sibling died from Yellow Fever and she was forced to stop her education to provide for her other siblings. She convinced a Principal that she was
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John Singleton’s film Rosewood, 1993, portrays the 1927 lynching and white race riot against the Black community of Rosewood, Florida that reveals how the local sheriff and city government officials participated in the lynchings, terror, murders, and racial and ethnic cleansing against African Americans and their property. This film confirms the first issue as true. Related to this, the excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folks (1903), described how, during the Era of Jim Crow or Racial Segregation, whites people in and out of government acted to strip blacks of their newly won constitutional rights to vote and have political and economic equality to whites across the nation not just in the south. The factual evidence detailed in Du Bois excerpt also confirms the truthfulness of issue 1 during this period in US history. In analyzing issue 2 Wells-Barnett provided charts of lynching’s from 1882 to 1891 outlining and detailing the murder without trial of over 1000 blacks of whom less than 300 are charged with raping a white woman (Lynch Law, 1893: 233). These charts reveal the terrorist nature of Lynching is to use indiscriminate violence against members of a specific community to repress …show more content…
In fact, what I learned about racial segregation laws and policies was that most blacks and other people of color,(Asians, Latinos, Native Americans) cooperated with it. My teachers never addressed colored peoples resistance to racism and racist practices. After doing the research on this topic and reviewing new information on lynching and racial and ethnic cleansing I have concluded that what I was taught in high school was not true but a candy coated version of history that makes white people not look so bad. After reviewing the new information I now realize how violently opposed white people are to people of color in the US. They even voluntarily segregate themselves into all white communities today so they can avoid contact with and relationships with people of color outside the workplace. The new information has changed what I now know about US history and opened my eyes. Now I will never trust anything taught to me but will do the research to find out what the truth is about what happened and who was involved and for what reasons. I will no longer accept information handed to me without first checking its sources and comparing it to other sources. I am also sharing this new knowledge with my brother and sister who are attending high school and
John Singleton’s film Rosewood, 1993, portrays the 1927 lynching and white race riot against the Black community of Rosewood, Florida that reveals how the local sheriff and city government officials participated in the lynchings, terror, murders, and racial and ethnic cleansing against African Americans and their property. This film confirms the first issue as true. Related to this, the excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folks (1903), described how, during the Era of Jim Crow or Racial Segregation, whites people in and out of government acted to strip blacks of their newly won constitutional rights to vote and have political and economic equality to whites across the nation not just in the south. The factual evidence detailed in Du Bois excerpt also confirms the truthfulness of issue 1 during this period in US history. In analyzing issue 2 Wells-Barnett provided charts of lynching’s from 1882 to 1891 outlining and detailing the murder without trial of over 1000 blacks of whom less than 300 are charged with raping a white woman (Lynch Law, 1893: 233). These charts reveal the terrorist nature of Lynching is to use indiscriminate violence against members of a specific community to repress …show more content…
In fact, what I learned about racial segregation laws and policies was that most blacks and other people of color,(Asians, Latinos, Native Americans) cooperated with it. My teachers never addressed colored peoples resistance to racism and racist practices. After doing the research on this topic and reviewing new information on lynching and racial and ethnic cleansing I have concluded that what I was taught in high school was not true but a candy coated version of history that makes white people not look so bad. After reviewing the new information I now realize how violently opposed white people are to people of color in the US. They even voluntarily segregate themselves into all white communities today so they can avoid contact with and relationships with people of color outside the workplace. The new information has changed what I now know about US history and opened my eyes. Now I will never trust anything taught to me but will do the research to find out what the truth is about what happened and who was involved and for what reasons. I will no longer accept information handed to me without first checking its sources and comparing it to other sources. I am also sharing this new knowledge with my brother and sister who are attending high school and