Jim Lovell

A Speech That Changed America In August of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that helped shaped America into the country that it is today. The speech, titled “I Have a Dream,” expresses the various challenges that the Negroes, or African Americans, experienced during this period. The main point Dr. King was trying to get across in his speech was that all people are created equal. “I Have a Dream” is about inciting change and bringing an end…

The Civil Rights Act was passed on July 2, 1964, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It has been over fifty years and still today this Act is disregarded in a lot of parts of the country just as it was in Oxford, North Carolina in the 1970s. Reading about the aftermath of Henry Marrows murder and how similar the aftermath is to the death of Mike Brown last year showed me that even fifty years later our country still is dealing with racism and…

three young African Americans that were inside. The police were stationed at every entrance or exit in the police station in order to protect the young men and to make sure that the crowd outside does not enter the jail or police station. The police chief was not at the police station or jail when the riots were beginning, he was up in Virginia; Minnesota is questioning the African Americans that were at the circus at the time of the supposed rape. The police chief kept checking up on the…

NOW, are the product of affirmative action. However the African American suffrage, was prolonged and was a much more characteristic of the vicious-circle phenomenon, due to ethnic stratification, structural differentiation and black codes, as well as Jim Crow…

“Oppression is the experience of repeated, widespread, systemic injustice”(Deutsch np). Oppression exists in two main forms: institutionalized practice and the formation of stereotypes. Institutionalized oppression is based on laws and traditions that discriminated certain groups, preventing success and personal advancement. Stereotype oppression is based on personal attitudes and opinions of groups, which develop from falsely acquired information (Nixon np). Oppressed populations are prevalent…

Wherever There’s a Fight by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, is a book that narrows down the struggles of man and woman of all colors to protect and extend their civil rights liberties. It provides stories of events in history that marked the lives of many people.The stories described in the book show how many people were being discriminated for the way they looked, the disability they had, their sexualaty for being black, latino, or Japanese. It gives the reader an image of all the injustices and…

the President of United States and Oprah. However, segregation and racial stigma still lives in our society and it supports the racial caste system. In Michelle Alexander’s book; The New Jim Crow, she points out how enforcement of drug laws has negatively affected the black population. After Practicing slavery and Jim crow, the American system now uses the criminal justice system to marginalized blacks. Additionally, James Forman Jr provides different solutions to the issue of mass…

The Negro Movement was an artistic occurrence that was based off of many forms of art created by the African-American artists, showing what was the reality, unfair, unjust. It was provoked by different African-Americans deciding to rebel by not accepting segregation and standing up for what they believed in. this was done because they wanted to express they're feelings towards the discrimination that was going on and the only way they thought that was available was by rebelling. And many of…

When Black southerners moved to the North for better jobs and opportunities, they were forced to abandon their regional identity. In order to identify their southern identity, 1.3 million African Americans started migrating back to the South. Your attachment of the region is the southern identity regardless of where you are living. This attachment is one of the cultural characteristics that continue to make southerners distinctive in the larger nation. The new arrivals of college educated…

Earl Warren and the Change of Society Earl Warren wanted to help African Americans society during segregation. He worked on cases that would integrate whites and blacks. Earl Warren’s decisions were life changing for many blacks and opened up a lot of educational doors. Earl Warren was the judge for the Brown v. Board case in 1954. The Congress which proposed amendment supsequently provided for segregated schools in the District of Columbia. Congress wanted to keep schools and every part of a…