Lynching

people. Although unjust, segregation was lawful as stated in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case that stated it was legal as long as black people had ‘separate but equal’ facilities. Horrifying prejudice was additionally prominent in the hundreds of lynchings that were responsible for countless African Americans’ deaths, created terror among their communities, and robbed them of their humanity. Sharecropping, poll taxes, literacy tests, and segregation display the racism seen in the twentieth…

Ida B. Wells was a fascinating woman. She was a suffragette, activist, and a journalist in the 1800’s. She led an anti-lynching campaign, owned a newspaper, and was an amazing activist who fought for civil rights. Wells was a teacher and she cared for her family almost entirely by herself. She was born in 1862, stepped on the train that would start her writing career in 1882, and she died in 1931. On July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Ida Wells was born. She was born into a…

Americans. Structural racism and mass incarceration have deemed African Americans as second-class citizens by robbing them of fundamental citizen rights and opportunities that would lead them to live a successful life. The events of the past such as; lynching, acts of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy have set the stage…

To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel that shows segregation between two races and Scout, the little girl and narrator, does not realize what is actually going on. The Ku Klux Klan were a more intense group of white men who were against blacks like the white citizens in Maycomb were but the KKK took it too far. In To Kill A Mockingbird, there are several examples that take place. The KKK was founded on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee. Their main goal was to make whites more superior than the…

Project 1- Photo analysis Name: Ryan Huan Yau Tay As the saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words”, a notion that a picture or an image can have complex meanings or ideas. A picture can tell a story by itself, depending on what you can see or understand about it. For example, a picture of the time you went for a holiday in a specific country can evoke a memory of when and where you took the picture, or about an event that was happening when you took the photo. The purpose of a picture…

Steve Oney, author of And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, in his Nieman Reports article, “Murder Trials and Media Sensationalism,” documents the story of a young child laborer in Atlanta who was mysteriously murdered, and analyzes the resulting newspaper frenzy in which multiple publishers…

The Ku Klux Klan A.K.A the KKK was white supremacy terrorist group, who made a big name for themselves in the Reconstruction part of the Civil War. They wore white robes and full masks with a cone shape, they acted in violent ways such and lynching to intimidate mostly the African Americans, Jews, Catholics, as well as other religious and racial groups. In 1865, started americas most famous hate groups that were striving for white domination. The KKK impacted the lives of many, mostly spreading…

show a facade they had created: that they were society's protectors. While President Grant tried to put an end to the Klan, the presidents in the 20s tolerated them. The tone that the president set in the 20s will result in more deaths and more lynchings. Roughly 3400 African Americans were lynched from…

Since the Reconstruction Era many years ago, the role and place of African Americans has significantly shifted. (pg. 589, pg. 1128) After 150 years of fighting for racial equality and de-segregation, African Americans experienced a great victory with the first black president in the White House, Barack Obama. (pg. 1228) In order to facilitate this transition from racial injustices to equality, a variety of social, cultural, and political changes were required. In the words of African American…

1 The New Deal: America’s Demand to be Heard The great depression left many people without homes, food, jobs, hope, or individuality. The economy had taken a massive down turn following the “Roaring 20’s” and mostly the lower and middle class suffered from it (Davidson 514). The Depression was the result of an overly optimistic view on life and economy. People assumed that the stock market, which was their go-to source of money, would simply grow forever as an endless resource. However, what…