Emmett Till

The ability to ignore a law, because 12 people find the law to be unjust, is a scary concept. Take for example the case of Emmett Till; Till, was a fourteen year old African American from Chicago. He was brutally murdered for the simple offense of accused of flirtation with a white woman. This flirtation occurred four days before his death. The woman’s husband and brother, brutally…

Rosa Parks once said that “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome”. This is my favourite quote from Rosa Parks. I really love this quote because in this quote, it shows that we can’t avoid racism if we do nothing. we can’t achieve anything without doing anything. That’s why this quote shows us that we should face the challenge not by running away from it but to overcome this challenge until it is no longer…

Joey koceja Ms. Gommermann English 11 15 February 2017 Power is Controlling Abraham Lincoln once said “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” We must all learn to control ourselves when given power. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses characterization to portray how having power or being powerless can cause people to be more confident and aggressive or shy and worried. In some instances power is used to put yourself above…

The Black Arts Movement left a lasting impression not only on African-American culture, but on all American cultures. “…criticized as misogynist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and racially exclusive, the Black Arts movement is also credited with inciting a new generation of poets, writers, and artists” (A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement). The Black Arts movement is dated from approximately 1960 to 1970, coinciding with the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, and the…

In America, there are still some laws, such as the Civil Rights Movement, that have been passed to protect African American from segregation and equality. However, there are still problems in the Civil Rights Movement. For example, African Americans are not being treated equally to every race. Today, the Civil Rights Movement has been changed; however, there are still forms of a modern Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement is still important, due to the protection for African…

Black Movement African Americans have been fighting for their rights since the passing of the 13th (Freedom), 14th (Citizenship), and 15th (Voting Rights) Amendments. All they wanted to do is live their lives as free people and have the same equal rights as the whites. Instead they were treated as second class citizens to the whites. After the Reconstruction era, Jim Crow laws were put in place to keep African Americans segregated from whites. They had separate areas from the whites on public…

The story of Emmett Till illustrates the brutal nature of racism, and showcases the frightening capacity for hate and violence that a racist society possesses. After a long day of picking cotton, Till and a group of teenagers went into a grocery store for refreshments. There will never be a definite answer as to what happened between Till and the clerk that day in the store. The teens that were with him reported that Till flirted with the clerk, or that he may have…

Ida B Wells, the feminist we all should aspire to be like. She began her anti-lynching campaign in 1892. She wrote many articles to bring light to the racial injustices in the world at that time. She worked hard to dismantle the stereotypes of African American people but apparently, not hard enough. Ida B Wells spent all of her adult life trying to bring justice to those who were lynched and to black people everywhere. She worked to dismantle the stereotypes of black men and women because they…

You have cases such as Emmett Till who was lynched in 1955 for flirting with a so called caucasain woman and cases as recent as this year, 2016, where Philando Castile is murdered by an officer while reaching for his wallet. The advancement of modern technology has brought attention…

Written by Tameka Hobbs, “Strange Fruit: An Overview of Lynching in America” goes into very explicit detail regarding the inhumane, callous, and deplorable treatment that black people faced and encountered during most of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. The main topic which is discussed in the chilling article is the act of lynching, which are basically punishments that are created by a community of people who decide to act independently from the court of law’s general judicial…