Black Spot

Miguel Guerra Mercado Mrs. Meacham Race riot assignment December 8, 2017 Race Riots in Tulsa The race riots all started with a man named Dick Rowland. He was a young African American that worked on shining shoes for a living. While using an elevator, he was blamed for attacking a white woman named Sarah Page. It was at an elevator of a building in downtown Tulsa. The following day the Tulsa newspaper published an article stating that Mr. Rowland had tried to rape Mrs. Page. The article also…

clearly and when we can finally see it we have to challenge the behavior. I remember for example this day when I was with three other friends in front of Atwood discussing. We were two white and two black. Then a friend of one of the white guy came over great only the two white guys and avoiding us (the two black people) was leaving. I had to challenge this behavior; so I called him saying: “Hey brother did you just forget the two of us?” He was embarrassed, so…

government has placed toxic in blacks and Hispanic neighborhood. Environmental racism is something that all people are not getting treated fairly with every day and as long as the government has power they will continue to do this. Environmental racism takes shape in different ways. For example, in article 1 (pg.1 p.9) "he found blacks over represented in areas with toxins, hazardous waste storage facilities and savage treatment plants." They are moving blacks into toxic…

The Black Death The Black Death, or bubonic plague, has been, by far, one of the most destructive, widespread, epidemics in history. Between the years 1346 and 1353, through commerce, the spread of bacteria, and bad hygiene, the Black Death came about in Europe, eventually eradicating between seventy-five and two-hundred million Europeans. It has been concluded that the Black Death originated in the dried up plains of Central Asia, and was spread through trade routes such as the silk road. In…

or keep them black oppressed. live under constant threat by both why white and blacks. That is a nation how lost respect for the blacks. On February 14, 1965 Malcolm home was firebomb. A week later on the 21st he was giving a speech at Audubom Ballroom in New York City wouldn't of started broke out among some of the people standing in front of Malcolm.without anybody knowing a guy man was there he approached him and shot him in the chest with the sawedoff gun. He died on the spot three members…

started killing people in unimaginable numbers. The Bubonic Plague was a powerful disease that was often referred to as the “Black death” or the “Black plague” because of the symptoms of the plague. The Black Plague first appeared when Genoese trading ships docked in a Sicilian port. To everyone's surprise, everyone in the ship was either gravely ill or dead with black spots all over their skin. The Bubonic plague was spread by a bacillus called the “Yersinia Pestis” which was spread through…

The difference between two interviewers is that they have different points of view to slavery. Susan Hamlin, who was one of the slave interviewer, and she explained how her master was very nice to slaves, treated them as human beings. For example, her master would make sure their appearance looked good on Sunday school and he also made sure Hamlin put on her shoes before go out in the winter, furthermore, the slave babies are fed well and treated nicely, and their master didn’t sell them and…

Throughout history, gender and race have restricted the actions of many. In the early 1900’s racial discrimination was not illegal, therefore racism was very unrestrained during that time period. In the novel by John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, the real life situation of racial discrimination was being portrayed throughout the novel. Both gender and race played a big part in it. It is set around the same time period, there was a lot of sexism and racism towards people, if you weren’t a certain…

different ways to categorize stories and tales. There is a concept known as “The Fantastic”, based off of Tzvetan (Yzetyen) Todorov’s ideas of the gothic criteria for gothic literature. The stories “The Lonesome Place”, “The Reencounter” and “The Black Cat” each fall under a category in Todorov’s gothic criteria: The Uncanny, The Marvelous and The Fantastic. In Todorov’s gothic criteria, there are three different categories: The Uncanny, The Marvelous and The Fantastic. In stories that fall…

in 2014, the phrase “black lives matter” has become a rally cry for a new chapter in the black freedom struggle. Black lives matter because black people are persons. From slavery to the Civil Rights movement, black Americans sought to establish themselves as people. Even in the free nation we have today, prejudices and stereotypes exist. The death of Brown, is not just a killing due to being suspected of robbery, it speaks volumes about prejudice and stereotypes against black people. It is…