Counting Crows

“Why We Can’t Wait” was written by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and published in 1964. A little side note is that John F. Kennedy was a big supporter of King’s movement. A major event that happened during this phase of history was the March on Washington, where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Those two things complimented the Civil Rights movement, however, King and his followers still received criticism for their efforts in trying to build a better and equal country. Why We…

court upheld Louisiana law requiring public places to serve African Americans in separate but equal accommodations. “Separate but equal” was an infamous ruling that the supreme court used to uphold extremely discriminatory laws, also known as “Jim Crow Laws”. Injustice in To Kill A Mockingbird is visible through the trial of Tom Robinson. Although Atticus presents solid evidence for Tom not being the culprit, the jury still rules him guilty. The jury ruled hesitantly however, most likely due to…

Jabrea Harding October, 5 ,2015 Pd.A6 DBQ Reconstruction Argumentative essay Throughout the Reconstruction era, it was concluded that the idea and process of the Reconstruction era was loathed, suppressed , and eliminated by most white Democratic Southerners. A great plethora of Democratic white Southerners wanted to spread white supremacy and express the idea of subjugating African-Americans or former slaves by using racist…

Essie Frost Mrs. Buckley Writing 101 11 November 2015 Police Brutality + Black Lives Incidents of police brutality have been occurring more frequently in American media. The news featured many stories about the horrible situation. It has been causing a lot of controversy in the African American communities. Police brutality is when a police officer uses his power to harm or kill an innocent person. Most police officers are serious about their job, but some use their job to show their evil and…

Racism is always around us, and all around the world, and plays an enormous part in society not only to the Hispanics, but also to the African Americans. Personal experiences of racism have been where I was called Mexican for being Hispanic which angered me to the point of a super sayian. Politicians giving Hispanics a bad name calling them criminals ,and the stealers of jobs for Americans. Racism has affected, not only Hispanics, but to all humans life that live on this planet. Racism is an…

"We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal." These famous words were penned by Thomas Jefferson nearly a century before America truly started taking them to heart in 1863, when President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and freed the enslaved African Americans. However, equality was still not completely present after the Civil War, and the post-war Reconstruction period brought both positive and negative social, political, and economic change. Though…

The case of Plessy v. Ferguson was based on the circumstances under which Homer Plessy bought a first class train ticket and deliberately sat in the train car reserved for whites, even though he was one eighth black. Homer was working with a group of people whose intention was to purposely get someone arrested for breaking the Louisiana law separating white and black train cars, so that they could bring the law to court. In 1896 the case went to court and both the Louisiana State Court and the…

History is riddled with instances of civil disobedience. Most would agree that, for some issues, it is required to change a law that is unjust. Even in a society that established a democracy as far back as its ideological conception, some issues seem to be only resolvable through decisive acts of insubordination. A valid point that is often times raised is: what is the point of a democracy if some issues have to be solved through civil disobedience? More specifically, this point is the…

Towards the middle to late nineteen sixties in America, there were many events that occurred that politically, socially, and economically changed the nation. In other words, the United States entered their most unstable decade in history . One of the most prominent cases was the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement consisted of multiple groups such as women, racial minorities, and students that felt that they were not receiving the most out of the “American freedom.” Women began to…

The movie Selma is set in 1965, a turbulent point in american history. While the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was bringing an end to segregation, many of the southern states were systematically disenfranchising African Americans with biased local laws that made it nearly impossible for them to even register to vote. This movie not only shows the struggle undertaken to overcome this dienfranfhiment, it also gives clear examples of why the right to vote is such an integral part of the theories of…