Vagrancy

smoothly. One of the most famous examples of this is the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 where there were Anglo American Sailors and Marines targeted Mexicans. 150 people ended up getting injured and over 500 Mexicans were arrested and charged from rioting to vagrancy. Similar to how the Vietnamese were treated, the Mexican immigrants were…

Depression for that particular time period in which the trials take place. For example, the two women in the Scottsboro case were hoboing on a train “returning to Huntsville from unsuccessful job searches in the cotton mills of Chattanooga” and to avoid “vagrancy and morality charges” for participating in a fight that occurred on the train, they “falsely accused the nine black men [of rape]” (Linder, Salter). This parallels the situation in which Tom Robinson found himself in, in a period of…

Mississippi Black Code was passed that “established antebellum power relationships” (American Yawp). These black codes, passed in South Carolina as well, let whites regulate black lives economically and socially (Mississippi Black). In Mississippi, vagrancy laws required blacks to carry paperwork that proved they were employed. If they did not have the official paper on their person they could be “arrested, fined, or even re-enslaved and leased out to their former master” (Mississippi Black).…

America, the great country founded upon the ideals of freedom and equality for all, sadly associates “all” only with wealthy white landowning citizens. When Reconstruction ended in 1877, the Fourteenth Amendment promised black citizens equal protection under the law. With the beginning of the Progressive Era, lasting from the 1890s to the 1920s, African Americans expected significant improvements in their political and economic standings. However, white Americans influenced by racial ideology…

The 20th century was an era of innovation, warfare, and communication. For America, this is an age of industrialization, entertainment, and reform. The country had just moved from the Gilded Age with its monopolies to the Progressive Era with all its reforms to the Roaring Twenties, a time of fun and consumerism. Despite this, America was also going through a period of internal racism, disenfranchisement, and hatred especially towards African Americans. This hatred catalyzed the Civil Rights…

bottom half of the population at the time. Though they began to be treated horribly in America Latin Americans in their own countries were thought of as lesser humans. An anti-Mexican law enacted in 1855 in California was thinly disguised as an anti-vagrancy statute but commonly known as The Greaser Act. The law defined a vagrant as "all persons who are commonly known as 'Greasers' or the issue of Spanish and Indian blood and who go armed and are not peaceable and quiet persons." The law was…

Patrick Wayne Kearney was born on September the twenty fourth on ,1939 in Los Angeles California. He was the oldest of three boys, he was raised in a reasonable stable family. Kearney lived a trauma free life. Throughout his early age he was a thin sickly child who was often a target for bullies at school. As a teenager he became unsociable and fantasized about killing people. He was born in East Los Angeles yet though he still lived in texas for some time. Kearney moved back to California after…

codes which sharply restricted the rights of the newly-freed slaves. The Jim Crow laws were simply a continuum of slavery. Government policies prevented blacks from benefiting from the government programs available to whites. Southern states enacted vagrancy laws under which black men were incarcerated and leased out as forced labor and under apprenticing laws the state placed black children with white employers if the court deemed the children were without proper care. Sharecropping and the…

The Scottsboro Case A case that was unfair to the defendants and to the society of mankind. The Scottsboro Case first started on March 25,1931 9 young black men were wrongly accused. During this time black men were allowed to have jobs, but whites were still harboring racial feelings towards blacks. The 9 young black men oldest 19 and youngest 13 were on the way to find work in Alabama as they were on the train a fight broke out between them with the whites. As the train began to slow the…

Tracking criminal data in the United States is a large part of the process in understanding and preventing further crimes in each community and every year the FBI releases an analytical statistics report for crimes committed in the United States, called the Uniform Crime Report (UCR). The UCR program data collection is done by individual agencies, such as police departments where they compile data by arrests and offenses. This system is called the Summary reporting system or SRS and the data…