Vagrancy

There definitely have been some hot button issues as of late. The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri has become well known as the “Ferguson Effect” and sparked protests all over the United States, which turned into riots causing much damage to those cities and injury to many people. This type of behavior has been known as breaches of the peace dating back to English law (Hall, 2014). Breaches of the peace are when a breakdown in social order occurs or peoples right to live…

Alabama in the 1930s was a divided and opinionated place, toughened from the Great Depression, with ideals so rooted in the culture that stereotypes were held above all. The combination of gender and race were key factors in the initiation of the Scottsboro case, with the economy and culture of the times exacerbating it. The actions of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates during the Scottsboro incident were motivated by fear and perpetuated by gender and race. During the trials, the stereotypes…

A former slave Bridget Biddy Mason was held in Los Angeles County Jail due to her owner demanding her and her children to come back to him but she won her freedom and became a nurse at the county jail where she worked until her contract expired but still came and volunteer. Even though there’s no record of what she saw, according to Lytle Hernandez “Biddy undoubtedly watched as Native people arrested on public order charges weekly filled the danked cells of the L.A. County Jail. She would have…

When Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term he put the 10% plan into use. This plan allowed the south to come back into the union if 10% of its voters pledged an oath of allegiance back into the union. Soon after this plan was put into use, Lincoln is assassinated and President Johnson is sworn into office. He ultimately favored Lincoln’s 10% plan and freely let the south back into the economy. All the African Americans wanted was to have freedom and get paid for the work they did. Due to the…

had African-Americans arrested and put over long periods, because of senseless crimes. After a while, these states realized that they could make profits off these prisoners which they earned a lot from. During the 1800s laws like the pig laws and vagrancy laws were created. These laws were said to have been created for all to obeyed. However, the laws were mostly directed towards African-Americans, for they were the ones been arrested for walking along the side of a railroad, speaking loudly,…

Though African-Americans were granted their freedom ‘on paper’, very few Whites (mostly the Southerners) accepted the reality of African-American freedom. While the law may have stated that African-Americans were ‘freedmen’, states still tried to work their way around letting their former slave be completely free. To do so, states created what was known as “Black Codes”. The recognized states that created the “Black Codes” included “Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North…

In the post-Reconstruction era, after 1880, African Americans experienced disenfranchisement and a denial of justice. Nine out of 10 of the 6.5 million African Americans in the United States lived in the South, with 80 percent of those Southerners living in rural areas (Bair, 2000). Many areas of the South promised African Americans both political liberty and justice. However, at the same time promises were being made, African Americans saw their political rights increasingly under attack. By…

1. Briefly explain how Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and the Radical Republicans envisioned Reconstruction. Be sure to share how each planned to deal with the question of citizenship for former Confederates and newly freed slaves. Abraham Lincoln- Lincoln’s plan was to reunify the north and south as soon as possible after the end of the civil war. He wanted it to be a short process so that the United states could exist as it did before. Although he emancipated the slaves and believed in…

was the opposite of its intentions. This was the period in time were juveniles had no rights (due process protections) meaning the courts had the jurisdiction over criminal and status offenses like truancy which is staying out late, defiance and vagrancy like being homelessness which are parental issues yet the courts felt it was their place to step in which is why…

Andrew Johnson became president following the assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865. In the beginning of his presidency, Johnson voiced his intentions to deal with the treasonous South harshly while assisting the former slaves with transition to freedom. However, Johnson failed to follow through with his intentions. It was later learned that he was a bitter racist that despised the notion of black equality. Rather than punish the southern states for their part in the secession and…