Moore And Rogers Case

On August 13, 1955 a man named Lamar Smith was shot in the middle of the day by a white man. Dozens of people watched this murderer gun down Smith, however, the killer was never indicted because every witness claimed that they witnessed him murdering Smith. There are tons of cases similar to Smith’s situation, when the murderer gets away because of their skin color. However, throughout the Civil Rights Era African Americans made the greatest sacrifice, protestors nearly risked their lives trying to achieve equal rights. There are even incidences when white protestors are targeted by hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan. President Lyndon B. Johnson seemed to only use police brutality when it came to silencing the protestors and King during their …show more content…
The police station in Washington Parish, Louisiana, hired the first two ever African American police officers the station ever had. However, on June 2, 1965 Oneal Moore was gunned down in his patrol car with the other African American deputy, Creed Rogers. Both knew that taking the job would be uncertain and dangerous, however, Moore and Rogers were still up for the challenge. Moore and Rogers were returning from a call when their patrol car was gunned down. Unfortunately, Moore was hit in the head and was immediately killed from the bullet impact. However, Rogers was able to make it out alive but was shot in the shoulder and was blinded in one eye. Rogers was able to report the vehicle over to the police station but no one was ever found guilty for the death of Oneal Moore. Surprising to see how the death of an officer did not make the police station want to arrest and restrict the people responsible for Moore’s death. There was a chain of events that unfolded after Moore’s death. Boycotts were starting to form which eventually compelled the integration of restaurants and theaters in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Moore wasn’t the only police officer that was killed during this movement. On April 9, 1962 in Taylorsville, Mississippi, Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr., was killed by a police officer. Ducksworth was a military policer officer who was stationed in Maryland, Ducksworth was on leave because he had to go back home and visit …show more content…
White supremacists would mock and belittle female protestors to try and enrage male protestors and distract them from their goal or purpose. Jamie Wilson is the Vice President of Programs for the Women’s Media Center, and she writes about her mother’s experience during the Civil Rights Movement in her blog. Wilson mentioned that when she was little her mother use to always wake up screaming from night terrors. However, her mother would never tell her what her dreams were about until she was an older age. Wilson recalled her mother always telling her that she would tell her about that man who kicked her in the stomach when she was older. Being puzzled and confused Wilson never asked questions about her mother’s tragic experience during the Civil Rights Movement. Wilson shortly discovered what her mother gone through, her mother has been beaten, jailed at least a dozen times, attacked by police K9s, and even hosed down by South Carolina police officers. Later in Wilson’s blog she recollects her mother telling her how African American women’s bodies were treated as battle grounds by white supremacists during the Civil Rights Movement. Her mother proclaims that white male supremacists would use slander and disheartening words to try and ill and provoke Civil Rights protestors to throw them off and fluster them from completing their marches goal. Novels have been written about this time as well Danielle McGuire’s text “At the Dark