The Bourne Supremacy

“Don’t let anybody tell you anything about the odds are against you,” conveyed Malcolm X on April 3rd of 1964 (“Ballot” 2). Malcolm delivered possibly one of the most powerfully imbued speeches of the Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights bill being recently passed and elections that same year Malcolm had one question for all blacks, whether they will choose “The Ballot or the Bullet”. Malcolm uses loaded language, multiple appeals, parallelism, and symbolism to achieve his claim, that black…

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X have both played crucial roles in the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. However, only one is remembered and revered for his work, despite the two sharing the same passion and drive for change in society and in the treatment of the black population. Martin Luther King Jr. and his accomplishments are taught at a young age, and are celebrated on the third Monday of every January, in addition to the hundreds of documentaries and books that help him continue…

He used a lot of violence to try and get the African Americans equal rights. The tactics that Malcolm liked to use to get his point across was starting riots and giving very intense speeches promoting violent behavior to stop racism. He would say in his speeches that the violence that they used in the riots was just self-defense against the white man. He would refer to the American constitution, saying that every American has the right to bear arms. He would also say that they should not have to…

The memoir, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is written to be a letter to describe the future issues to be anticipated for his son in American society. Coates wants to show the reality of the difficult life that must be lived if you are African American in the United States. Ta-Nehisi Coates wants to accurately share the trials and tribulations of the stereotypes of our society to protect his fiveteen year old son, and children all over the nation like his. Children who may not yet…

The Civil Rights Era (1940-1980) was the rise of Black Nationalism and Black Power. Many risked their life and lost their life in the name of freedom and equality. African Americans got tired of accommodation to whites and longsuffering of being second class citizens, they started their own movement to separate themselves from White America, to get their own life, to live like everyone of white American was living, free with value. Several black leaders of the time voice their thwarting with…

The Land of the Free?: Mass Incarceration as the New Jim Crow By Rosie Kereston What were the Jim Crow Laws Before a comparison can be drawn between the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States and the Reconstruction-era Jim Crow laws, it is important to note what these laws were, what effect they had on citizens, and why they were instituted in the first place. The term “Jim Crow” is actually a direct reference to a racist, traveling musical act from the 1830s. Blackface was…

Historical Information (dates, people, laws, key facts) ALL November 18, 1978, 909 people died in a ‘mass-suicide’ in Jonestown, Guyana These 909 people, which included over 200 children, were members of the People’s Temple, a religious group led by Jim Jones Background info on People’s Temple Jim Jones founded the People’s Temple, a Christian cult, in the 1950s in Indianapolis, Indiana and later moved his church to San Francisco, California. He preached socialist, utopian ideals and spoke…

During the 1960’s, Jim Jones started the People’s Temple, a racially integrated, socialist, Pentecostal worship-inspired church, which caused controversy after he led the mass religious suicide of over 900 people on November 17th, 1978 at Jonestown, Guyana. While some branded the People’s Temple as cult, David Chidester’s book Salvation and Suicide analyzes the People’s Temple from a religious perspective to understand the underpinnings of its values and ideologies. By doing so, he embraces the…

full integration” (Haley xi). It’s important to note that Malcolm believed that separation from the white race is the only solution for black people to gain their own sense of self and to have a flourishing community, due to the internalized white supremacy that everyone is affected by. However, when the New York Times covered Malcolm X’s separatism movement, it paints a different…

land to slavery to Japanese internment, patterns of oppression have defined American history and have been carried through today as racism has been imbedded into American culture. As the ideology of whiteness is practiced in American society, white supremacy has led to the oppression of those who are not considered white, especially Mexican immigrants, and has disadvantaged non-whites in almost all aspects of American life, including education, labor, and the protection. The white race,…