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oath to protect the citizens of the community would take extreme measures of violent and a physical means to an end the organized non-violent protest. Specifically, the firefighters purposely aimed their hydro hoses at the lower extremities of African American activists (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010). The behavior displayed by these emergency response members would inflict physical damage on not only the adult activists but also the children who participated in this march due to the high water…

Langston Hughes was a private, mysterious poet, whose sexuality became the focus of curiosity by his critics and readers before and after his 1967 passing. While there was limited scholarly works that accurately biographed his life, there was indeed a plethora of critical reviews and analyzations of his writing itself by various writers and poets (Summers 3). His work was different in that it mostly remained gender ambiguous and defied stereotypes about what it meant to be a man, a woman,…

Many African Americans do not go to trial because they are advised that they would earn an easier sentence from pleading guilty; innocent people are coerced into pleading guilty because it known that they will have a smaller chance of beating the charge in court. Some reasons for African Americans being dismissed from jury duty include: too young or old, single or divorced, religious or not, failed to…

School of Communication at Washington State University, expresses in his article, “Television Viewing, and Perceptions about Race, “Historically in family centered shows, African Americans have been portrayed as less educated, from broken homes, and possessing lower status jobs than white” (3). Our perception of African Americans is going to be that they are less educated because that is what the television is portraying them as. Television continues to affect our perception of ethnicity…

and Italian) that all seem to coexist in a harmony. Segregation relation can be described as separating people based on race or ethnicity into specific groups that have their own rights/roles in society. This can be easily exemplified in the post-american Civil War era into the 1960’s with the racial segregation in the South of the United States. Based on the doctrine “separate but equal” after the court ruling of the Plessy vs Ferguson trial, segregation based on skin color was enforced…

than that. Racism will always be around you, if it is against whites, blacks, Asians, or any other race. People will never change, that’s the sad thing about this world. There will always be discrimination, segregation, and “no” freedom for African Americans, even thirty years from now. People will always discriminate other races or different genders. Let’s just focus on the race discrimination,…

still did not see the truth behind the matter of slavery. This is a very hypocritical way that the people of the south viewed their colored brothers. The U.S. should have seen the obvious truth behind slavery before we began to enslave the innocent African…

The age of rapid urbanization was upon the United States in the early 19th century was a big push for most Americans, giving up their farmsteads and pitchforks for skyscrapers and hammers. Americans moving from rural areas to begin with was a rough start, just after the civil war tensions and racism still was very prevalent in the segregated south so many African Americans chose to move to the urban north to try and escape the racial violence. Once the populations in cities began to rise…

The border states between the North and South faced a migration of African Americans attempting to begin a life anywhere except under the oppression of Jim Crow and the bleak conditions of the postbellum South. As extremist movements and relational events occurred throughout the nation, urban areas experienced a renaissance of black culture. Was this period truly the “birth of a nation?” As black culture graced America with music, art, and literature, white Protestant women attempted to gain…

Hughes is one if the main reasons black culture is celebrated today. Langston Hughes, or James Mercer, was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin Missouri. He died May 22, 1967 in New York City (Webster 209). Born with a racial background of African, French, Native American, and English ancestry, Hughes used his background throughout his life as an inspiration for his art. Hughes attended elementary school in Lincoln, Illinois. In his class, he was elected as class poet, which may have started his…