Jim Thorpe

In chapter 8, Walter talked a lot about Harlem. He started noticing differences between him and Mickey. Walter also noticed that his race played a large part in his life. On page 85, it said that the idea that race played a large part in his life process was becoming clear to him. Walter knew that blacks didn’t have the same chances as whites. He wanted to be without race, because he knew he would never be white. One day Walter’s friend, Eric, told him about a party. A boy named Eddie said that…

Reconstruction in the South took place during 1865 through to 1877. It was not a success for many reasons. It finally came to an end about 10 years.This event had to do with much racism in the south.Back then blacks or african american were not treated fairly by the whites. Blacks were not allowed to go to school with the whites or work with the whites. The reconstruction was a great failure for the united states.During this time Lincoln was trying to help with the reconstruction.But he died…

In the New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration: Age Of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander shed light on the systematic injustice in the black community, in which they are still forced to endure mass unemployment, social neglect, police barbarism. She focuses on the government abuse of power, Which use its dominance to dismantle black families, with the use of mass incarceration during “The War On Drug area”. Michelle Alexander convey the use of Jim crow laws which in addition was used to…

“black codes” was used most often to refer legislations passed by the Southern states and the end of Civil War to control the labor, migration, and other activities of newly slaves. These laws was also known as the “Jim Crow”. Jim Crow was represented as the black code was based on racism. Jim Crow was a characters in the minstrel show. He’s known as a white actress as a “black face” or “black makeup”. In the late 1865, Mississippi and South Caroline enacted the first black codes. Congress…

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…