Jim Lovell

June 2, 1865. This very day marks the end of a long, bloody war, the Civil War. The Civil War had lasted for four years, from 1861 to 1865. Tensions were high and the country was divided over issues revolving around slavery. Four years of America’s history was spent battling this issue and attempting to declare a true winner between the divided nation. The long, gruesome four years that the Union and the Confederates had spent fighting finally came to an end. With a battered nation that suffered…

Reconstruction: Illusion of Equality Following the end of the civil war, slavery came to an end with the passing of three important amendments the 13th which abolished slavery, 14th that gave the right to citizenship to any individual black, tainted or white born in the US and last the 15th allowing African American men to vote. African Americans would finally have been considered equal to rest of the US citizens or so they thought. Even though the new three amendments granted African American…

In Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ video “Science versus Religion,” Rabbi Sacks talks to three different atheist scientists who are working on the frontline of scientific breakthrough. He talks to them to see if science and religion can agree on certain topics or if they will forever be in conflict. (add more) Neuroscientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield was the first person Rabbi Sacks conversed with. She is a professor at Oxford, currently researching the human conscience and (attempting) to…

How would it feel to get arrested for not giving up a seat to someone else different from them? The public buses in Montgomery had white seats in the front and Negro seats in the back. If the front seats were all taken, then a White would take a seat from a Negro. The Negro could only get up for them or get arrested as mandatory. Segregation was so important to Montgomery, so the Negroes had to boycott the buses to prove a point. The Alabama Bus Boycott impacted the US through the implementation…

Klu Klux Klan Injustice in our society. This includes the Klu Klux Klan, a group that formed after World War 1.They were formed when they thought World War 1 should have killed the blacks. There has been injustice in a bunch of different ways, past and present. In the past there was a group called the Klu Klux Klan ( also known as the KKK).The Klu Klux Klan was a group in the 1800’s-early 1900’s. Some more key things you can think about are, who the KKK is in more detail, how they got started,…

The purpose of ending slavery was to give black people the independence to have power over their own lives without the authority of White Americans. This independence was capable through constitutional amendments but only to an extent. Without having legal power over black people, White American found different ways of maintaining social control. According to Sociologist Turner, Singleton and Musick, the need for the social controlled system of a caste-like system developed on the basis of…

Historical Context The segregation in education began with Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896. Plessy v. Ferguson, “which upheld the doctrine that ‘separate but equal’ facilities for blacks and whites were constitutionally permissible, justified separate (usually inferior education of African American children in both the North and South” (Cusher, 2015, p. 38). The segregation of schools continued until 1954. The ruling of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka laid the foundation of desegregation in the…

Disobedience is necessary for human progress. Without disobedience we would not have many of the famous historical icons we have today. People automatically assume we need obedience in order to progress in life. In some instances this is true, but everyone has the right to go against what one thinks is wrong. Disobedience has changed the world to have more egalitarianism and different outcomes of felife historically. Today, the constitution functions differently than decades ago, thanks to the…

In my opinion I honestly believe there’s nothing an African American during World War II could do to Equal Rights. Africans Americans were fighting for their lives and also other people lives, they felt as if they could fight physically then they could fight verbally for their civil rights. There has been lots of changes since my grandparents but my parents a few things have change but most things are still the same. My grandmother was born during segregation and before the Great Depression.…

The end of Jim Crow racism was by no means the end of racism entirely. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American behavioral scientist, published The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America in 2015 to “describe the lacking racial order of America in the post–Civil Rights era” (Bonilla-Silva 1359). Bonilla-Silva simply puts that the when the Jim Crows were revoked in the late 1960’s that didn’t mark the “end of racism” or even the “declining significance of race” by any means. Rather,…