Jim Thorpe

The film Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith shows how life apparently intended to be for all the people in America during the civil war. D.W. Griffith demonstrates the life of Americans by using two different families, historical events and people in order to show what was happening during that time. Griffith uses two families in the film which are the Cameron’s representing the south and the Stoneman’s representing the north to demonstrate how life was changing for them in the civil war. This…

Social Inequality Discrimination occurs all over the United States and due to such judgement, there cannot be an equal society. An equal society is when a lot of people, no matter race or gender, live in a non-discriminating area. Many years have passed since the rough times of discrimination and slavery towards African Americans, yet the legal status has hardly evolved. Although African Americans and other races have the same rights as whites, discrimination continues. Although America has…

I firmly believe that African American’s have significantly progressed since the year 1865. Before this time in history, blacks were not considered people, but slaves and were nothing more than free labor to slave holders. The treatment these African American people were given could be described as nothing other than heinous. On December 6, 1865 the 13th amendment was ratified and slavery was officially illegal according to the U.S. constitution. Since then, the African American people…

M. L. “1963”. I Have A Dream.)” Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired many people as an activist to fight for equality. Jim Crow laws, also known as the anti-black laws, were implemented in mostly in southern states. The laws were in place from 1877 to the mid-1960s. Although King was a private person when it came to his personal life, he spoke about his experiences growing up with Jim Crow laws. As a child, King experienced seeing African-Americans being lynched and had dealt with racial segregation…

At the end of the Civil War, former slaves rejoiced in their newly free status granted by the 13th Amendment. Yet, despite their freedom, these African Americans essentially held no means of beginning a new life off of their former owner’s plantations. However, newly freed African Americans sought to rebuild their lives post-slavery through the ownership of land, the ability to receive an education, mobility, suffrage, family reunification, and being self-sufficient. Land would allow for these…

States. Segregation started as early as after the Civil War. The victory of the Union slowly improved the treatment of African American citizens. However, there are also laws approved later on to restrict their freedom unequally from the whites like the Jim Crow Laws and the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Many activists and protesters have fought to repeal them for better treatment and racial equality. Some were successful though some were not. Also, the end of World War II was the start of a new…

After the 1920’s World War 1 had finally ended and America was starting to return to their normal lives. However, immigrants and African Americans seemed to be a continued problem for America. Economic prosperity failed to prevent social, cultural, and political divisions between the United States. Political cartoons such as “The Menace of Modern Immigration” and “The Teapot Dome Scandal” show political divisions after the 20’s. The Monkey Trial, which also shows a cultural division between the…

of segregation opened the doors for the Jim Crow Laws in the South. African-Americans were subject to racial injustices in restaurants, public transportation, lodging, and in many more locations. To keep the African-Americans in control, there was an increase in the amount of mob violence against African-Americans. Many were publically lynched so that other African-Americans would be intimated and scared to defy the segregation laws put in place by the Jim Crow laws (Bailey 507). However, the…

racial ontology prevailed among whites and non-whites who aspired to become white, successfully fracturing the minority communities and securing the domination of Anglo-Saxons. To uphold this racial ontology, in 1873, many of the southern state enacted Jim Crow laws legalizing segregation of African Americans. In 1888, the Chinese Exclusion Act effectively banned Chinese immigration to the United States, and many were upset that government did not kick out the Chinese…

After leaving July Perrys house Mose Normand there is only a few accounts of anyone seeing him and one of which comes from Fred Maxwell, who was thirteen at the time of the massacre. According to Maxwell, Normand was good friends with his father and right after leaving July Perrys house Normand went straight to see Maxwells father. Allegedly Normand told the elder Maxwell that he spoke with judge Cheney and was informed that what the white men were doing was unconstitutional and he had a right…