Lynching

Rap legend Lawrence Parker better known by his stage name “KRS-One” once said, ”If hip hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to uplift them!” Two years ago in December, rapper “XXXTentacion” or Jahseh Onfroy released a song titled “Look at me.” This song had gained him a lot of publicity making him known to mainstream media. In September of 2017 he finally released a music video for his song. With the publicity of “Look at me” he was able to shed light on racial…

Michael Honey’s “The Power of Remembering” offers a glimpse into the personal struggles of ordinary African American Men and women from the 1930’s to the present. Honey asserts that in order for one to understand the civil rights movement of the 1950-60’s special attention must focus on the years that preceded it. Honey believes the focus should be on the “connections between community, civil rights, and labor struggles, toward the perspective and influence of women, and towards the role of…

The South has Risen: Why Huck Finn Actually is all it’s Cracked Up to Be The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been in controversy for years over whether it should be read in the high schools of America. Some people say that the book and characters contradict themselves, and that the book has racist overtones. Neither of which are true; Huck Finn is a classic novel about the struggle to escape slavery, and the friendship that blossoms between a young southern boy and a runaway slave. Mark…

Racism in To Kill a Mockingbird In 1955 Martin Luther King Jr took leadership of the American Civil Rights Movement. In 1960 Harper Lee published her book To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous I have a dream speech. While we all see the impacts that Martin Luther King Jr’s movement, the effects of Harper Lee’s book get less praise. Lee’s book was turned into a movie in 1962 and released on Christmas day, which brought the amazing to story to more people. This book…

black Americans by the whites. Furthermore, the repetition of the stanza and Dixie makes the poem more ironic. Our speaker is so upset by his death that she wonders, what's the use of praying to a white Jesus? This “white Lord Jesus” accepts the lynching, and does not condemn it despite it being a grave sin. Not only is the physical world the young lover in wrought with oppression, but so is the spiritual world. By cutting off one of the only avenues for solace, this makes it nearly impossible…

Following the Reconstruction period, a majority of American local government and states used Jim Crow laws to segregate the whites and the blacks. These segregation laws were ways to keep the African American population marginalized and an attempt for white supremacy to endure. “Jim Crow was not just a system of laws, excluding black people from public accommodations; it was a code of conduct that relegated African Americans to second class citizens.” (Gates) Although some African Americans…

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” Poet, novelist and social activist, Langston Hughes was a proud, black American citizen entrenched within a society where racial segregation was strictly enforced. Challenging dominant perspectives regarding race, colour and the identity of being American, Langston Hughes stood up for those who were marginalised. As a result, he became a figurehead for those standing up for…

two of them is black. The founders of this organization are Ida Wells,W. E. B. Du Bois,Archibald Grimké, Oswald Villard, Lillian Wald, Mary White Ovington, William Walling, and Henry Moskowitz. NAACP first task was to try to stop lynching by a anti-lynching rule. NAACP also focused on the integration of schools.The NAACP successfully lobbying for legislation that resulted in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Act. The NAACP did not easily give up to stop helping colored students…

In Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout’s compassionate actions eliminate the tension of the lynching mob. To do this, she started a conversation with Mr. Cunningham, the leader of the group. To begin, Scout recognizes Mr. Cunningham’s face, and begins to talk to him about the time he payed them in hickory nuts, trying to show what she learned from Atticus, which was to start a polite conversation with someone you know whenever you see them. She then follows this up by asking about his son…

The main difference is how it is portrayed in actions. During the 20th Century racism wasn’t just bad, it was dreadful. Back then it even included people being lynched for no valid reason, and riots taking place that destroyed homes of many people. Lynching is being put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without…