Vagrancy

A fourteen year old boy’s trip to Money, Mississippi ended in his own death. A tired woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. A group of young boys rode a train to a death sentence. There are two obvious similarities in these three cases: one, the victims were all black, subjects to white supremacists and two, the three incidents contributed to a cohesive collective consciousness known as the Civil Rights Movement. In 1955, Emmett Till traveled to Tallahatchie County,…

In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment, which “abolished” slavery, was ratified. Many believe that the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery overall, but that is not the case. After ratification, slavery was an act of punishment for convicted criminals. The amendment states that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction” (4). Chattel slavery,…

Equality has always been a serious issue regards racial segregation in the South of the United States, especially in the Jim Crow Era. African-Americans were dehumanized and considered inferior compared to White Americans. They were treated unfairly and restricted in public places for their rights and resources were stripped. Based on the two autobiographical memoirs, Black boy and Separate Pasts, the authors have expressed their own opposite respective experiences of Blacks and Whites to…

The status of African Americans in the 1930’s was very cruel and a very tough time. Black people were being considered as dirt at the time. Many factors decided the status of African Americans, such as The Jim Crow Laws, The Great Depression at the time and the original treatment by white people and how they are superior to them. These issues were definitely related politically and socially to the To Kill a Mocking Bird novel because the book is known for treatment of black people and the status…

One of the most controversial eras in American history, the period known as Reconstruction saw immense changes in the country's political and social life. The United States government for the first time assumed the basic responsibility of defining and protecting the civil rights of African Americans. For the first time, black men in the South were given the right to vote and hold office, and the previously politically powerless African-American community united with their white counterparts to…

Currently, the United States finds itself in a very similar situation when compared to the era of Civli Rights and the fight for equality. One might be watching the news and or reading a newspaper and will see videos or images of police brutality or protests bearing a striking similarity to that of the South in the 1950s. Since the time of the Civil Rights movement and all progress that was made regarding the ending of the legal marginalization and mistreatment of African Americans, it sees like…

that a high rate of homeless individuals does battle with substance misuse, however addictions ought to be seen as diseases and require a lot of treatment, directing, and backing to succeed. Substance misuse is both a reason and a consequence of vagrancy. Addictive issue disturb associations with family and companions and regularly lose their occupations. For individuals who are struggling to pay their bills, the onset or intensification of an addiction may make them lose their housing.…

former slaves from leaving plantations. And some states tried to limit African Americans’ peace, including owning land. In these laws, “[l]ocal officials who caught freemen off plantation without a current labor contract…arrested and charged them with vagrancy, a crime that carried a fine, imprisonment, or involuntary servitude” (Gillon,…

Wade. Which was the idea of fundamental rights that individuals had, particularly women. According to Risa Goluboff, in “Dispatch from the Supreme Court Archives: vagrancy, Abortion, And What the Links Between Them Reveal About the History of Fundamental Rights” (Goluboff, 2010) discusses the idea of “fundamental freedoms within the meaning of ‘liberty’” (Goluboff, 2010). Risa Goliboff’s states, “such freedoms [include]…

The New Jim Crow, written by an expert and 10 years experiences in civil liberties Michelle Alexander. I agree that people who break the law are criminals and should be punished. Yet what I see is an issue of racial injustice being depicted by discriminatory factors including social class. It is preposterous to call the criminal justice system racist in many ways, as if you have this superior entitled opinion. When Barack Obama became the first African american president, it seems safe to say…