Edgar Ray Killen

Civil Rights Workers in 1964. James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goldman, and Michael Schwerner were three young Civil Rights workers who were working in Mississippi. Chaney was African-American and Goldman and Schwerner were White. They were investigating a racist crime and were riding in a car together when they were stopped and arrested. They disappeared and their bodies were not found for 44 days. It was discovered that they had been released into the custody of the KKK who shot and killed them. At the time the justice system in Mississippi was as racist and corrupt as the KKK and no one stood trial for the crime even though most people knew who had committed it. Today, Mississippi is trying to recover from its racist past. In 2005, Edgar Ray Killen was charged and convicted of murdering Chaney, Goldman, and Schwerner. He was the only one of several living suspects to ever be charged with the crime. As a tribute to the slain men, the FBI building in Jackson, Mississippi is named in their honor. There are many African-American martyrs and heroes in Mississippi history. Many African-Americans tried to fight for equal rights and justice in Mississippi. Some were maimed or lost their lives in the process. Some of them continued to resist and fight inequality in Mississippi and have made a big impact there and throughout the rest of the United States. Apart from James Chaney, there was Medgar Evers another Civil Rights activist and Field Secretary for the NAACP in is…

Scopes: The Battle over America’s Soul The battle between science and nature seems to be one that is never ending. One of the times when this battle came to a head was in 1925 when a trial occurred over whether evolution was okay to be taught in school. In Tennessee, the practice was outlawed, but when a teacher in Dayton Ohio was coerced into using a textbook that contained evolution, the debate became one of major national attention. John Scopes, a twenty-four year old math and science…

Freedom Summer, just a mere 10 weeks of the summer of 1964, changed the world, just by changing Mississippi. Reconstruction ended and blacks were no longer slaves, but they continued to be oppressed. Mississippi was the state that kept blacks as slaves without the title. Mississippi had the lowest crime rate, supposedly, but most likely had the most murders of blacks in cold blood. The Mississippi Summer Project dived head first into the volatile violence, subjecting their volunteers to a unique…

Growing up in our time, in a middle class privileged family and attending a good school makes myself take for granted what some people truly go though. I have always enjoyed my history classes throughout high school because my teachers were so passionate about their subjects. After this course I had acquired a different level of education of American History that I have grown to appreciate. Prior to this class I had not been aware of several events in our history including the project of Freedom…

Yotat Embassy. When he tells Tyler that he won’t be in work for a while, Tyler finds out that it’s because his sister Laposha is in trouble (again). He quickly decides to help with the case as well, wich leads him to find out Laporsha secret. Laporsha was quiet around Tyler and got mad at Dominque for telling Tyler what happened. Tyler takes one look at Laporsha son, Todd and sees Shawn Grayson's face in him. “You.. and shawn?” he says as he gives Laporsha dirty look. Laposha looks at the ground…

structure. All members of the plagioclase series usually display lamellar twinning called "Albite Twinning". The twinning is caused by an error in the crystal structure during its growth....Whew... Why does Labradorite look so pretty and have so many colors?? Well that is what they call Labradoressence... What is Labradoressence? The Labradoressence color display is from lamellar inter growths inside the crystal. These inter growths result from compatible chemistries at high temperatures…

AP Language: Major Works Data Sheet Title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Date of Publication: 1953 Genre: Dystopian Fiction Biographical information about the author: Ray Bradbury was born on August 22nd, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. His mother, Esther Bradbury was a Swedish immigrant and his father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was an English power and telephone lineman. Bradbury loved the town he grew up in so much, when he began writing he used this setting under the name “Green Town” as…

“It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury). That succinct, introductory statement represents the arsenal act that firemen perform when burning books in the name of censorship in Fahrenheit 451, a fictional novel in which the author Ray Bradbury ironically depicts firemen as pyromaniacs whose main duty is to burn books in order to censor ideology and conflicting beliefs. Now one may rightfully assume that such a book with make-believe characters and settings has no resemblance to reality, let along…

In a society where nobody is smart, all people are dominated by one force: technology. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, expresses the various themes of societal domination, individuality, and great realizations of rights and wrongs. Guy Montag, a fireman, burns the homes of those who own any type of book. He becomes obsessed with breaking away from the status quo and exploring books in order to expand his mental abilities and knowledge. His wife, Mildred, is addicted to technology and is very…

Society has been altered tremendously from the time period that Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem were published to present day. Ayn Rand and Ray Bradbury provide predictions of the future of how they thought society would develop. Evidence from both novels suggests that corruption and immorality have affected society immensely causing it to fall into the trap of the authors’ warnings. It is astonishing to think that these prophetic authors were correct in many ways. Fahrenheit 451 shows similarities…