Emmett Till

Aging is something that no one can avoid, it is an important part of our life. When one is aging, it is usually the time in which one reflects on their life and understand why they are taught certain things growing up by their parents and others older than them. To help one reflect on their life, Mary was observed and interviewed and asked several questions about her life history, well-being and general health, and lastly to review life and to reflect on her aging process. Mary is a 72…

No one knows exactly when or how it started or who took the first step to what later would become the Great Migration. Blacks in the south endured a great amount of pain due to the caste system that was placed in the mid 1870’s. The caste system would solely be based on race. The south payed no attention to the fourteenth amendment. In other words, blacks were stripped from their rights and protections. They had to step aside if a white person was walking. They had to respond with “sir” or they…

white segregationists across the country, many African Americans became disillusioned with the concept of nonviolence as the preferred means to achieving change. One of the arguably most notable examples of this was the brutal murder of 14 year old Emmett Till, an event that is credited with being instrumental in the formation of the civil rights movement in the first place. As the violence continued, leaders such as Malcolm X began to advocate for a new type of civil rights: Black Nationalism.…

In 1931, in Scottsboro Alabama, nine African-American boys with the ages from 12 to 20 were detained and wrongly accused of both rape and assault of two white women. A lynch mob of almost hundreds of white people assembled in the perimeters of the jail, causing the National Guard to interfere. Over the next decade, the Scottsboro Boys case as it became notorious of, was a nationwide icon of legal injustice in the segregated South, with no fair trial, consisted of an all-white jury that led to…

vampires. Although some modern vampires have same traits with the traditional vampires, such as sensitive to the sun, strong, fast, and inhuman strengths, they are not blood drinkers. They fall in love with human beings and will protect their lovers as till the last breath. Some of them watch human while they sleep, but they do cause any harm. The modern vampires want to fit into human society and to be human. They do not kill an innocent person, and they feed on animal to sustain them. They…