Southern United States

Lynching has occurred throughout the history of the United States, the bloodthirsty gatherings grew in popularity and flourished throughout the South after slaves had become emancipated in 1863, after the Reconstruction era. White Southerners blamed the overwhelming amount of lynchings on the African American population, claiming that the growing idea of racial equality provoked African Americans to display their dominance through false accusations that involved white women. Senator Benjamin…

Rebel and with the special focus on O Brother Where Art Thou. This film will help capture and reflect southern culture to those not accustomed to the ways of southern society. People who live in the southern parts of the United States, ranging from Virginia to Mississippi, are often grouped together into a…

British textile industry. At this time the cotton was not being shipped to Europe from the South, it was sent to New York and then it was sent to England because of the different focuses on the cotton that was being manufacturing in the United States and…

Woman had to fight for the right to vote for years until 1920 when the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Chapman-Catt has shown that even women born in the United States have to fight for their freedoms that that believed were…

Democrats would allow Haynes to be the president, but he would need to remove the federal troops in the South and support appropriations for the rebuilding of levees along the Mississippi* River. Additionally, he would need to grant subsidies to Southern railroad. And, with this Compromise, Democrats would develop control in politics, thus ending Reconstruction. And, for now, the Union would question as to what issues would…

following states favored the Democrats, but the electoral commission threw out most of the votes to support the Republicans due to the elections expressing the idea of frauds and threats of violence towards Radical Republicans voters. In Oregon, their election was accused of voting fraud by the Democratic governor due to the Republican elector holding a federal office and substituting for a Democratic elector in his place. Since, the Democratic party was the party in power in the states of South…

In the early 1960’s life was hard for the African-Americans living in the United States. From bars to bathrooms, everything was segregated. Black Americans struggled for racial equality for a very long time, An ongoing battle between the good and the bad. Segregation was a big issue back then. Every small thing would be a problem. Water fountains, bathrooms, clubs, and bars just to name a few. As things grew worse discrimination became more evident through many different ways such as hate…

at the black people, especially in case of the kids who couldn’t be sent to jail because they were too young. In an article this is exactly what happens. It states: “the lynching of two Negro boys who had been guilty of criminally attacking and murdering a white girl" (“Glorying in Their Shame”). Holiday’s song alludes to the recent Southern lynching that were going on in the south. She paints this unsettling picture through her words of what these ‘strange fruit’ appear to be from an almost…

Introduction When Kudzu, Pueraria montana var. lobata, was first introduced to the United States no one suspected that the semi-woody vine would be capable of enveloping forests across the country. Today, the plant sprawls across an estimated 810,000 hectares of land from Eastern Texas to Florida all the way up to Kentucky. When it was originally planted, Kudzu was seen as a “miracle” plant, able to grow extremely quickly and stop erosion dead in its tracks. Given continuous encouragement by the…

After the Civil War, many white southerners were faced with the possibility that their rank in the social hierarchy would become disrupted. Now that former slaves were no longer controlled by their owner’s whip, white supremacists had to find alternative means to keep African Americans suppressed. One method of subjugation was making it difficult for African Americans to leave agriculture and seek out other employment. For example, since white women worked in cotton mills, African American men…