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having an education. Women were the one’s who wanted to get treated equally, not men because men had it all and had power over women and Staton and Mott was making a voice for the women to to have the same rights but king was making the voice for Africans…

American History Essay America did not live lived up to Emma Lazarus poem, “The New Colossus” which was engraved on the Statue of Liberty. America was the complete opposite of the poems purpose. In this essay, evidence and examples from nine different articles, websites, and films will show why America as a whole did not live up to the poems expectations of a free land for all. First, in the Film “War On the Weak” (Dunaway, 2007), the film describes a time period in which Americans came up…

The Racial Divide In American: a Response to Life Support The first line of the Declaration of Independence states; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Unfortunately, The United Stated of America did not live up to it’s own creed. It wasn’t too long ago in the United States when prejudice, racism and slavery ran wild.…

Rhetorical Analysis of a Letter that changed the look on racism American activist leader, in the Africa American Civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his letter, Letter from Birmingham jail, describes the dramatic effects of racism during April of 1963. King’s purpose is to, defend his strategies of direct action against racism along with oppression. With an emotional tone, he educates his readers on how the racist acts of white clergymen are sinister, consequently their effects…

California, he eagerly pointed out a single American, stating “Look at my African-American over here!” to a cheering crowd . This brief, pivotal moment is loaded with subtext and is an example of a microaggression from our very own President-Elect. In doing so, Trump evokes Omi & Winant’s groundbreaking work Racial Formations (1986), playing into the racial project of White Supremacy. Thus, the microaggression Donald Trump commits toward African-Americans in the video clip is a reflection of how…

century, white people brought Africans over to America for free labor and told them they were three-fifths of a person. In the 19th century and throughout the 20th Century, blacks were beaten, raped, killed, hung, humiliated, denied fair wages, loans, jobs, education, and healthcare, all because of our skin color. All the rights that Black Americans have today are because they fought for it. Now, in the 21st century, while still battling systemic oppression, White Americans want it to go…

three African Americans who made the decision, along with millions of others, to leave the south in the early to mid twentieth century. Wilkerson follows their struggles during their time in the south and the barriers that they had to overcome to simply leave this area of prosecution. The Jim Crow South was a place defined by brutal violence and inequality rivaling that of the prior years with slavery. As is evidenced by the stories of Ida Mae, George Starling, and Pershing Foster, African…

African Americans dominated and were able to throw all of the white men off the train. Once the town heard of the altercation, tensions got heated. However, unexpectedly two white females who bared the resemblance of males, Victoria Price and Ruby Bastes, emerged and accused all 9 men of raping them. The boys were thrown in jail and declared guilty…

discussed in order to display the difference in sentencings given to two athletes of different races. Lastly, the ideas of institutional racism as well as the Implicit Bias theory are explored. Keywords: racism, law enforcement, minorities, African Americans, institutional racism, implicit bias theory Racism in the Law Enforcement System The idea of racism in the law enforcement system has recently sparked a lot of controversy. Citizens are supposed to feel safe in regards to law…

Africans came to the United States as slaves in the early 1600’s. Slaves were not viewed as people, but as property. It is a known fact that the slave trade was very profitable. Free labor enabled slave masters to reap the benefits without doing the work. It took four (4) centuries for slavery to be abolished. With the loss of free labor came slavery of another name, criminal. Slavery may have been abolished in the 1860’s; however, one area where slavery was still legal was under the 13th…