Medgar Evers

The story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," demonstrates two elements of cultures between Father Paul and Native American protagonists. In the Christian world, only God can cause rain, but for the Pueblo world, it is a task to every man to communicate to the cloud people to initiate rain. The characters in this short story show the power struggle between the white world made of Christians and the Pueblo community. There is the struggle between integration of the two cultures. The central theme here…

Am Not Your Negro”, a documentary-styled essay with text from Baldwin’s “Remember This House”. Though it was incomplete due to Baldwin’s sudden passing from cancer, the author recalls the gruesome deaths of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, and Medgar Evers, his close friends. Peck’s film and Baldwin’s words brought to light the daily struggles of black people with institutions, such as schools, workplaces, prisons and correctional facilities, hospitals and so forth. These ideas are also…

Controversially, The Help is a drama packed novel based on the 1960’s civil rights movement in the south, told through the view of three main characters Aibleen, Skeeter, and Minny about how colored maids are treated by their white employers. Although, these three characters are the primary focus, Stockett pulls conflicting and harmonious relationships between these characters that intensify the issues with racial segregation. Aibleen and Minny are the main characters who tell their story from…

imagine the community during that time and how violence was used against black citizens. Stockett mentions the tragedy of Medgar Evers, an African-American civil rights activist and major figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's who got shot in the driveway outside his house in front of his family in Jackson. The characters were very affected by that tragedy, after all Evers was only defending the rights of black people. Although he is a minor character in the novel, Robert Brown plays…

Skeeter senses that Hilly knows something about her work when she goes to pick it up *It is discovered that civil rights leader Medgar Evers has been murdered by the KKK. His death causes an uproar in racial tension within the town *Skeeter confronts Hilly into why she's been acting out of character with her. Hilly states that she saw the Jim Crow laws pamphlets and feels as though…

encouraged African Americans to take a step back from their efforts to achieve equality by focusing on their economic gains, rather than violently fighting. This resulted in an increased amount of passive aggressive movements, such as those from Medgar Evers and Jackie Robinson, rather than taking part in loots, mobs, and arson. W.E.B. Bu Bois advocated for a consequential technique in which the end results justifies the means, as evident with Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. Marcus Garvey…

What: Black Wall Street is a documentary that chronicles the events that led to the loss of 300 plus lives and burning of a prosperous black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greenwood, a prosperous black neighborhood was set ablaze by an angry white mob. The journey will take us from the rise of Black Wall street, heralded by entrepreneurs like O.W Gurley through the confrontation that led to the burning. Black Wall Street will also look into the efforts to rebuilding the community, the…

of a single story. A single story is told here as a story that is told with the same singular view. Adichie describes how she started reading and writing when she was younger, although her writing only ever contained characters who were white and blue-eyed. She says how the books she read only ever had people like this and who drank ginger beer, Adichie wanted to drink this ginger beer although she had no idea what it was. But these were the things she thought were supposed to be in books since…

Medgar Evers was a member of the NAACP or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and had served for almost ten years and was shot dead by a member of the KKK this happened in front of his family. The “KKK member jumped from the bushes” and shot Medger Evers this shows the planning of this attack beforehand just to prove a point to the blacks of Jackson Mississippi that…

John F. Kennedy or commonly referred to as JFK was President of the United States during a crucial time in the United States, the Civil Rights Movement. Kennedy’s Sothern Strategy will provide reason to why he did not want to give his opinion regarding the Civil Rights Movement while he was campaigning in the late 1950s. In truth, Kennedy supported the Civil Rights Movement because he promoted many African Americans to government jobs during his short time as President. Although Kennedy was…