Lynching in the United States

the idea of “separate but equal”, lynching, and unfair opportunities. The Plessy v. Ferguson trial was an important trial in that it cemented the idea of “separate but equal”. The reason for the Plessy v. Ferguson trial was that Homer Plessy,…

Early American black society chose to show their independence and authority in a predominately white society by embracing the philosophies of Black Nationalism and Black Separatism. Since the first Africans were forced to come to the United States as slaves, they struggled to develop their own identity and find respect in a culture which originally regarded them as beasts of burden. World War I essentially triggered the Great Migration where blacks moved from the south to the north to find new…

After the Second Great Awakening at the beginning of the 19th century, more citizens of Western nations began to practice protestant religions. This is especially true within in the United States. After the growth of protestantism occurred in the United States, missionaries of the faith began to establish a great influence overseas, specifically in China. During the late 19th century and early 20th century an increasingly large amount of protestant American missionaries began to start lives in…

organized to achieve equality of the races. The NAACP was founded by an interracial group of approximately 60 people that included W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell and others. The NAACP was initially formed partly because of lynchings and the 1908 race riot that took place in Illinois. Citizens were tired of the mistreating of colored people so they formed this group that would work relentlessly to make sure colored people would be treated equal to the whites; ”The…

land as possible and respected the fact that they were there first. The second segment was the almost lynching of James Cameron and the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. The picture that was showed was that of Thomas and Abram and it is really upsetting to see. The two individuals were only teenagers and even though they had robbed and murder a man they did not deserve the beating and lynching they had received. What is really upsetting is the faces of the individuals in the crowd. Many…

of the United States there has been discrimination against specific groups of people. Americans have discriminated against Native Americans, African Americans, and Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans in the past. There is not a time when a national emergency justifies creating laws and rules applicable only to people of a certain ethnic, racial or religious background. Hundreds of native peoples made up of millions of individuals occupied the lands that would become the United States of…

ended up shooting several of the white attackers. The three men were later arrested and brought to jail. Not having a chance to defend themselves in a court, a lynch-mob took them from their cells and murdered them. Wells wrote articles decrying the lynching of her friend, Moss, and the wrongful deaths of other African Americans. In response, a mob stomped the office of her newspaper and destroyed all of her equipments while she was away in Chicago. She received death threats telling her never…

when in reality they were very much as segregated as they were during the founding times of the United States and just as unequal. Following the Civil Rights Movement, times appear to have changed for the better. However, have we truly reached racial equality in the country? In society? In our hearts? In numerous ways, the Civil Rights Movement has brought substantial change and equality in the United States. One example would be redlining, or rather the lack of redlining. Redlining is to…

On June 30th, 2017 JAY-Z released the music video for his song The Story of O.J. on Tidal as a soft of teaser trailer to his latest album 4:44. In lieu of shooting a traditional music video, JAY-Z opted instead to create an animated video that employs a style that calls back to flagrantly racist portrayals of African Americans in classic animated short films such as All This and Rabbit Stew and Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land. After its release, the music video was met with both universal…

Jim Crow legislation. The court ruled that as long as states provided “equal but separate” facilities for whites and blacks, Jim Crow laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. With this…