Thurgood Marshall

Shortly after arriving on campus, the Mu Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha caught my attention because I realized that they play an integral role in various student organizations. One of my first experiences came when I attended a Black Student Movement meeting and everyone in attendance was to pair up to write notes to elementary school students. The president of BSM, Tre Shockley, walked up to me and asked to pair for the assignment. While up with me while writing the note he talked to me my…

All of the cases and people involved in fighting for equal rights for African Americans played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement. We learn about the famous ones who delivered speeches or changed laws but even the boy who participated in a sit-in or the girl who became friends with someone who wasn’t the same color as she was, played a big part in changing how our country view race and rights. One of the earliest faces of Civil Rights is Dred Scott. He was born into slavery in…

This case occurred in the middle of the Nixon Watergate scandal. Leon Jaworski was the prosecutor in the Watergate scandal. The watergate scandal was followed after a break in at the Democratic National Committee. Tape recordings were made of Nixon's conversations in Watergate. Jaworski obtained tape recordings made of President Nixon discussion the scandal with some of his advisers. Nixon handed over the tapes to Jaworski ( the special prosecutor) to try and get this situation over with. The…

Reasons Civil Disobedience Should Be Justified I’m sure you’ve watched the news and heard of the many things that occurred around the world during 2017. A mass majority of people decided that it was their year to take a stand for what they believed in by protesting against their government. An example of civil disobedience was the march in London by Muslims protesting against ISIS in October. The protesting muslims were not happy with the rules and regulations that ISIS was setting forth to them…

Desegregation and Integration: How the Brown Versus Board Trial Changed America The end of the Jim Crown era was much more than the conclusion to government-supervised racism, but the start to new lives as minorities.” The Supreme Court made it clear that America’s commitment to civil rights was firm and unshakeable” (Shwarz 84).The ruling dramatically changed the society by declaring an end to segregation in schools. Minorities, who were forced to take a subjacent role on all topics of America…

Since the founding of America, people have been led to believe that equality is a pertinent part of their lives and that they should embrace and relish it because it is a God given right. I would like to say that we all know that is just not true!! Our Declaration of Independence states, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” . How exactly are we considered equal? Are we equal because God created each of us to occupy this earth, to…

Often times in education, there is a disconnect between the curriculum being taught and the reality of the daily lives of the students. As expressed my numerous leaders in minority communities, including Howard University graduate Dr. Ta-Nehisi Coates who authored the book Between the World and Me, the content stressed in the school setting is viewed as far less valuable in urban areas than the lessons taught by the streets. For many students living in urban communities, survival of this…

tnut v. Leading body of Education (1954), now recognized as one of the best Supreme Court choices of the twentieth century, consistently held that the racial isolation of youngsters in government funded schools damaged the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In spite of the fact that the choice did not succeed in completely integrating government funded instruction in the United States, it put the Constitution in favor of racial fairness and aroused the beginning social…

When it comes to the topic of the death penalty, most of us readily agree that it is a controversial conflict. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is the question of whether deterrence has anything to do with it. Whereas some are convinced that deterrence plays a big role on how criminals commit crimes, others maintain that criminals don’t plan out what crimes they are going to commit due to whether they will qualify for the death penalty. Many say that deterrence has no effect to…

“Dr. King’s example showed me that it was possible to do more as a minister than what I had witnessed in my own church… I was inspired.” As a young boy, John Lewis always stood out from the rest, whether it was wearing a suit and tie just because or preaching a sermon to his chickens on the farm, he knew was abnormal for a child his age but accepted his differences anyway. Growing up in the South, Alabama in particular, in a time where African-Americans were not accepted at all by the white…