Medgar Evers

The Civil Rights Movement was a movement to protect equal opportunities and rights for African Americans as a U.S citizen. The movement created impacts that have affected the U.S for a lifetime; such as the people that died and the laws created. At some points, members of the movement faced violence and even deaths. There were deaths of young children; such as Emmett Till. . Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy who was tortured and killed because of the accusation of “whistling” at the white…

Prejudice dates to the very beginning of the United States, when the Europeans interacted with aboriginal tribes. There are some powerful movies that depict prejudice, and the reality of how people hurt one another. Today, racism ignites the riots of the black communities, as several black men and women, unarmed, and with little reasoning, are shot. It encouraged many to partake in the social protests, #BlackLivesMatter movement and take a knee (a national anthem protest), over police brutality.…

Racism is embedded into essentially every American institution and is nurtured by people who have racist predispositions. Ta-Nehisi Coates in Between the World and Me, writes “the ground we walked was trip-wired. The air we breathed was toxic. The water stunted our growth. We could not get out” (Coates, p. 28). His book, published in 2015, implies that racism, even today, is everywhere in American society. This is true in many major institutions, from education to law enforcement and religious…

for tunes like "Mississippi Goddam". By the mid-1960s, Simone became known as the voice of the Civil Rights Movement. She wrote and sung a song named "Mississippi Goddam" at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in response to the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham church bombing that killed four young African-American girls. Listening to the song, it seems like Evers’s murder could have been a breaking point for Simone; an acknowledgment that things have gone past a point of no…

Introduction With our class readings these last few weeks and the videos we have watched, we have had the opportunity to learn about the Federal law Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the impact it continues to have on people’s lives. According to the Employment and Labor Law the reason for Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to help improve the problems dealing with discrimination and to promote equality (Cihon & Castagnera, 2014). The law protects employees and…

Ethnography Analysis: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was written by civil rights litigator, legal scholar and author Michelle Alexander. The book discusses the history of race and mass incarceration in the United States specific to African American man. Alexander argues, “We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it” (pg. 2), there has been a rebirth of a caste system…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…