Counting Crows

The Civil War, considered a Northern victory, had drastic effects on both Northern and Southern territories. Throughout the duration of the war, more than 620,000 soldiers had lost their lives battling over the institution of slavery. With the Northern win of the Civil War, the institution of slavery came to a halt, and a new era arose, dismantling the efforts that had taken place after the Civil War. The Reconstruction era was not only an era where many former slaves had been granted an…

African-American literature is a style of writing that covers the time period where segregation was sanctioned, such as the Jim Crow Era, and compares the style to another time period style of writing…

Doctorow develops the theme of racism in Ragtime because of Coalhouse 's situation, the way society views the situation, and the way the situation alludes to an American belief. Racism is developed through the events surrounding Coalhouse because the vandalizing of his car was the result of him being an African American. Coalhouse is a very successful musician who is well off; however, in the eyes of the white society, he is still inferior and denied the justice he deserves. This view of African…

the US Constitution, or made virtual dead letters by hostile court decisions, culminating in 1896 in the plessy versus Ferguson, which gave legal sanction to the principle of separation but equal facilities of separated by face. (The World of Jim Crow). Americans do not know the history behind or before the Civil Rights Movement. ¨Civil rights are the freedoms and rights that a person may have as a member of community, state, or nation. Civil rights include freedom of speech, of the press,…

Supreme Court reversed Plessy’s case. Under the new law, segregation in public schools was illegal, and by postponement, that ruling was applied to other public facilities. In the years following, subsequent decisions struck down similar kinds of Jim Crow legislation (Plessy v.…

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird: A Blow To Racism Beginning in the mid-1950s, the civil rights movement began to gain traction. There was an uproar aimed at addressing the racism and segregation that was prevalent and widespread in the United States. During this time, some activists—authors and public speakers—gained notoriety for their work with civil rights. One such activist was Harper Lee. In 1960, she wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird that captivated the nation, causing positive…

Atticus Finch, a distinctive character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of this book takes place during the 1930s in Maycomb County, Alabama; In this period of time, the Jim Crow Laws still existed, especially in the South. The Jim Crow Laws were regulations that enforced the racial segregation between the blacks and whites. Besides this, the country was going through the Great Depression. This was the worst economic downturn in America. About 15 million Americans were…

Civil Rights embraces nonviolence and is an important part of history. During this time period, many African Americans faced years of discrimination and violence. In order to defend many civilians lives, nonviolent leaders chose to use the “power of words” to fight for equal rights. Without leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights would have been restrained from succeeding. Non violence impacts civil rights and other social issues because it demolishes segregation,…

The Freedmen’s Bureau was a federal agency established in 1865 by the Congress and played an important role during the Reconstruction Era in the Southern part of the United States. After the Civil War, the Freedmen’s Bureau was created to provide protection, economic assistance and ensure preservation of rights for African Americans in the United States. Although it provided prosperity and new rights to blacks, it didn’t last long because the agency did not receive enough support and economic…

The environment people live in affects their live daily. Some people have gotten very sick and also died from the polluted air and the government doesn’t care nor do the rich. The 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…