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with 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…

Mann is a photographer that specializes in black and white portraits of her family and landscape in the american south. Sally was born May 1, 1951 in the small town of lexington, VA. She is married to Larry Mann and has three children , Jessie Mann, Emmett Mann, Virginia Mann. Sally Mann has become a successful photographer and has won various awards for her work and here are a few of them , NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally.…

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…

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…

""Phoebe Is No Pyncheon": Class, Gender, and Nation in The House of the Seven Gables." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 34.1-2 (2008): 40. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2017. Emmett, Paul J. "The Murder of Judge Pyncheon: Confusion and Suggestion in The House of the Seven Gables." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 24.3-4 (2003): 189. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2017. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Centenary Edition of…

I don't care how good you think you are at Fallout 4, you are going to die. Death is a common thing in Fallout 4, and there are some that stand out over others. There are so many ways to die in this game, but here are the top ten ways to do so. 10. DIABETES What started out as sitting down at a table and having a nice meal, can turn into diabetes. Don't eat too much in Fallout 4, and watch what you eat overall because you don't want to be the guy who dies in Fallout 4 from diabetes! 9. EATING…

national stage, but the reporters of the time did not always give the full story. The many mediums used in the media at the time truly brought light to the situation of the Little Rock Nine. For example, as stated in ‘A Mighty Long Way’ concerning Emmett Till’s murder, “How the teenager, unfamiliar with the deadly…

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…

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…