Black Spot

For example, “in 1992… the county said race had nothing to do with picking that spot.” Despite the civil rights movement at the 1960’s, the issue of environmental racism has popped up often, including the 1990’s and the present. According to the text, “.... a jarring throwback to the 1930s that is ignored today.” This issue has been…

Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney are killed by a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob near Meridian, Mississippi. The three young civil rights workers were working to register black voters in Mississippi, thus inspiring the ire of the local Klan. The deaths of Schwerner and Goodman, white Northerners and members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), caused a national outrage. When the desegregation movement encountered resistance in the early 1960s, CORE set up an interracial team to…

Parks was not really the reason why the boycott was started. They chose Rosa, over the two arrested a week before her, becauseshe was a better candidate then they were. The main cause for the Montgomery Bus Boycott was segregation on the buses. The black community had to pay in the front and exit the bus and re-enter in the back entrance. Sometimes they would leave without them (History.com). The White people would fill…

The Black Death (black plague) Did you know that during the years 1348 and 1351 up to 75 million through 200 million people died because of the Black Death? Well if not, then an interesting fact is that it killed about 30% to 50% of Europe’s population during that time, this all began in china but soon this deadly disease started to spread quickly. When did it begin? Okay so like said in the begging it all began in the 14th century and those years were between the years 1301 &1400, through those…

paternalistic side. (Crespino The Strange Career of Atticus Finch, JSTOR.com) To justify this idea of paternalism he says, " Tom Robinson is sweetly innocent and naïve; Atticus feels a moral responsibility to defend him, as the novel's tide attests, because a black man accused in the Jim Crow South was as helpless as a mockingbird." In chapter ten of To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus says, "… Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee,) …

The Black Plague is known to be one of the most significant diseases. It took place during the 14th century causing many deadly scenes, with an estimate of 75 to 200 million deaths and had a major impact on England’s social structure. Daniel Defoe the author of the “Journal of the Plague” was able to experience this tragic era of the plague and later wrote about the tragic moments he witnessed. Through the use of anecdotes he creates graphic images which describe the horror and gruesome scenes…

The most articulate spokesman for black power was Malcolm X. Malcolm has risen from a ghetto childhood involving narcotics dealing and other crimes to becoming the chief disciple of Elijah Mohammad, the Black Muslim leader in the United States. “Yes, I'm an extremist,” Malcolm acknowledged in 1964. “The black race in the United States is in extremely bad shape. You show me a black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.” By 1964 Malcolm had broken with…

the Titans Michelle Senese Georgian Court University Remember the Titans is a film based on a true story about the integration of an all Black school into an all White school in the 1970’s in Alexandria, Virginia. When the school board decides to make an African American man head coach of the football team, tensions rise between the White students and the Black students, as well as the members of the community. There are many examples of cultural differences seen in this film that are still…

Rosa Parks is the mother of civil rights for many reasons, and she deserved it because she stood up for herself and her rights as a black woman. Rosa Parks made the african americans as a group change because it shows that all people should be threaded equally and fare no matter what the problem is. Rosa moved with her parents at a young age to be closer to her father’s parents. She also had a brother named Sylvester who was born a couple years after she was. Rosa grew up and eventually went to…

the 19 century. Just like the Civil Rights Movement, The Black Lives Matter Movement is something most people have heard about. The Black Lives Matter and Civil Rights Movement have a lot of similarities, but as they are also two seperate groups they also have differences The Civil Rights movement was started as a group to ”protest the racism and discrimination that existed in the United States.” (Civil Rights Movement). While the Black Lives Matter group was created for a mission to “build…