Emmett Till

Brown v. Board of Education. This went ended up at the Supreme Court and which a ruling was passed to make segregation illegal for public schools. This lead to the doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. On August 28, 1955 a fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi. The same year on December 1st, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to vacate her seat in the white section of the bus. This event would lead toward the bus boycott led…

The idea of patriotism is an integral and fundamental word that describes one’s love for their country and a way to express their right to speech. However, the word is being manipulated to justify the wrongdoings of many people. Patriotism is a word that is changed and manipulated to fit the beliefs of others and varies among everyone. To me patriotism is simple, patriotism means showing love for one’s own country. However, the word patriotism has changed according the era, but, currently, the…

Many of the works and theories of the social theorists during the 19th and early 20th century are still relevant today even with all the changes that we have gone through as a society. The issues discussed in Weber’s and Marx’s class theories; DuBois’ theories about race and Durkheim 's theories on society and labor are the basis on which many of today’s ideologies are derived. Karl Marx was a class theorist and theorized about class struggles and the ideal class society. He also had…

Racism toward African-Americans was and still unfortunately remained as a recurrent issue throughout American’s history, especially during the 20th century. Despite that several attempts had been made to fix the racist political and social systems pro-1950s, it is in the mid-1950s and 1960s that there emerges any impactful approach in regard of stopping the racism and storing black communities the rights they deserved. All these approaches grouped together into what now know as the…

Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. He became the American civil-rights activist and vanguard for change to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi between 1952 and 1963. In his youth, he volunteered in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II where served with a segregated battalion, in Great Britain and France. He fought in the Battle of Normandy in June 1944. But a racial segregation in the military only assisted to his awareness that Jim Crow laws…

Medgar Evers Introduction: Medgar Evers was a black Civil Rights activist who fought against discrimination and inequality in the 1960s. Not only was Evers a veteran of WW11, but he was also a founding member of RCNL (Regional Council of Negro Leadership). Evers fought for equality in his own way, even through all the discrimination during that era. Evers has a reputation for being a genius. Medgar Evers was assassinated, fighting for what he believed in: equality of rights. The determination of…

The Civil Rights Movement was a tense and emotional time period for society, especially in the southern United States. It was a callous fight that disrupted the civilization that our ancestors had strived to build. People were shamed, humiliated, and disgraced for individual beliefs and rights. Public areas were segregated between black and white people causing major controversy among the races. There was a lurking apartheid that still has a subtle presence even in our enlightened society today.…

Are Hate Crime Laws Effective? Recent legislations have been passed to control the rate of bias motivated crimes in the United States. Such crimes are referred to as hate crimes and include the targeting of a victim based on their race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, disability, etc. Those who take part in hate crimes are to be charged with tougher penalties than those who commit the same crime without bias motivation or, in other words, carry out an act on a victim…

2. The Diary of Anne Frank: Anne Frank’s diary is the most famous account of the Holocaust. Her family was forced into hiding when the Holocaust began. The Gestapo finally arrested Anne and her family on August 4, 1944. Anne Frank’s diary is important because it is a first-hand account of what Jews went through in Germany during World War 2. Her diary describes growing up during the Holocaust. It is a true account of a life in hiding. The diary of Anne Frank is important because it is a window…

at a white woman at a store. This action and the trial of the two proposed guilty men made people rally with the civil rights movement because of the injustice verdict. Even though they later were boasting about their malicious crime they did. Emmett Tills mother wanted the world to see what had happened to her little boy that she had an open casket at his funeral. His photograph was viewed nationwide adding more support to the civil rights movement from both parties. The white people who…