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If you asked multiple people what they thought of history and history books they might say, It’s boring…those books are filled with bias opinions. Well Danielle L. McGuire’s book, At the Dark End of the Street, is defiantly not boring. Reading this book helps me better understand the role African American women had, and how it was so important. This is a book mentions not only the struggles African Americans had during the civil rights movement, but the struggles women faced specifically. You…

I was reminded of the nostalgia film series, Back to the Future, when Nike recently unveiled their self-lacing shoe as a community tribute to the actor, Michael J. Fox, who played the infamous time traveler character in the movies known as Marty McFly. Having watched the movies as a child with my father a handful of times and hearing about the new shoes, I realized how our technology is vastly advancing to meet the movie’s reality with our growing technology. Think about it, we have Elon Musk to…

King, Savio, and Steinem: The Radicals of an Era The 1950s through the 1970s were a time of activism for many diverse groups who wanted to change the civil, social and stereotypical manners of the United States. Those that were involved in the Civil Rights Movement, Free Speech Movement, and the era of second-wave Feminism, are often referred to as radicals. Radicalism is defined as the extreme advocation for a change in prevailing conditions, views, or affairs. The civil rights activists who…

Nicola Campoamor Mr. Brycen Baugh U.S. History 4 December 2015 The fight for African Americans rights has been a topic dating back to the 16th century. It was not until 1954 that a large group of events occurred resulting in the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout this time, the main leaders were, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Also, through the years, violent protest occurred, along with peaceful protest. The Civil Rights Movement changed over time from 1954 to 1968 by being a time of…

Since radio, television, and all other forms of media began, their presence in the world has been constantly growing. The media today has become part of everyday life, and is continuing to expand its domain. The United States since the start World War 2 began has been shaped and altered by newspapers, radio, television coverage, and more. While it was once made up a small portion of the average person’s life and could be avoided, now media coverage is unavoidable with cell phones and laptops…

Zachary Aversa History 174-05 Professor Downey May 12, 2017 Brown v. Board of Education (1954) During the 1950s in the United States, especially in the South, was in the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, whites and all others had separated everything from each other that you can think of basically. Some examples include: restaurants, bathrooms, drinking fountains, and especially schools. Separation was still legal in most southern states so laws allowed places to…

The Mississippi Improvement Committee is a rather abstruse name for a group advocating women’s rights and rights for all races. The name, and the people behind this group casts a positive light. What McGuire best shows is how this group has been neglected by history and how it has been “left in the footnotes of history.” McGuire states, “Georgia Gilmore and her club (MIA) from Nowhere, “represented more than the actual cash they contributed each week,” B.J. Simms insisted. He continues…

Another form of state violence is police use of deadly force. The police “justifiably” killed 343 persons in 2005 (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2012). According to the government data collected from police agencies, this figure is down from the high point during the past thirty years of 462 in 1994. More accurately the numbers could be up to 29 percent higher (Loftin, Wiersema, and McDowall, 2003). In the Bureau of Justice report it notes that 39 percent of those killed justifiably were…

Norman Rockwell (1946-1959) The illustrations of Norman Rockwell tell the story of the average American after World War Two. As a result of the Baby Boom, the families were very large, consisting of three to four children (Slide 2). The bigger families led to more chaos and craziness within the household. The mother could finally catch a break once the school bus came to pick up the children (Slide 18). Rockwell also shows that this era was a time of dating and dreaming about finding the right…

The Racial Contract So the story has been told, it has been agreed upon by many, and the origins of a civil polity is as follows: In the beginning, humanity lived in a horrible state of nature. Man wandered hither, taking from here, and taking from there. All around, you could examine a pure, and unadulterated state of chaos. To your left, you could see one hunting a buffalo, and in the next, the kill is stolen by another. To your right, you could examine one being ravaged,…