Voter registration

Loud. That was my first thought when Ms. Giovanni started speaking at the MLK Celebration Speaker event on January 18, 2017. Not loud as in volume wise but loud as in everything she did was big. The moment she took to the stage all focus was on her and the words she spoke. For such a small, petite looking African American woman, her personality was enormous. One could immediately tell that she held a strong pride in the color of her skin and her gender. She constantly reminded the audience of…

police brutality against peaceful protesters. To illustrate this, Lewis recounts how Joe Rauh arranged for a series of testimonies on television, one of which included Fanny Lou Hamer’s. Hamer recollects how she was arrested after attending a voter registration workshop, and how she was brutally beaten within her cell. While recalling her arrest, Hamer notes “I began to scream, and one white man got up and began to beat me in my head and tell me to hush. One white man -- my dress had…

jury selection for a jury trial dealing with a felony DUI case. During the jury selection, I witnessed a Venire. A venire or jury pool, is a master list or jury list, from which a petit panel is selected, typically is based on names drawn from voter registration lists or lists of licensed drivers over eighteen years of age (Lippmann, 2014, p.518). I also witnessed a Voir Dire. A Voir Dire is the questioning of individuals to determine who is to serve on the jury (Lippmann, 2014, p.519). After…

their rights to vote through fear and intimidation. When Martin Luther King went to the White house to talk the to President Lyndon B. Johnson, he wanted to elevate the poverty driven community. During that time, SNCC had an ambition for the voter registration campaign in Selma but they were not dealt nicely. They faced opposition in Jim Clark, the Sheriff. The local resident called for assistance in their mission to get the right to vote, Martin Luther King went to Selma.…

The perception of race has played a major part in the way Americans think about their history. Race continues to convince many people into the belief that American experience forms the exception in world history, the variation from structure that appears to hold for everybody else. Elsewhere, classes within society may have experienced difficulty over authority and freedom, over persecution and oppression, over competing discernment for morality and right; but in the United States, these were…

his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7, 1965 to protest local resistance to black voter registration. In the early hours of July 23, 1967 one of the worst riots occurred on 12th Street in the heart of Detroit, Michigan. By the time the riot stopped , four days later by 7,000 National Guard and US Army troops, 43 people were killed, 342…

As candidates battle it out in hopes becoming the next President of the United States, two women are gaining momentum in their respective parties’ polls. Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina are both strong female candidates in this current race for the White House. These are two candidates who are claiming to represent the female vote and are invested in women’s rights yet they have opposing views on a very important issue, Planned Parenthood. Clinton, representing the Democratic side, is a very…

45 Plays contained a moment where president Nixon gave a speech, however, during that speech robbers where set free. In the darkness of the theater they went through grabbing various items from the audience. Who in return were shocked and excited, putting up no fight regarding their items that were taken. This is because the action itself the action itself left the audience wanting more, seeing where this action may lead. Which can be said about the play as a whole, as each act was different…

Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. He became the American civil-rights activist and vanguard for change to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi between 1952 and 1963. In his youth, he volunteered in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II where served with a segregated battalion, in Great Britain and France. He fought in the Battle of Normandy in June 1944. But a racial segregation in the military only assisted to his awareness that Jim Crow laws…

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Chicano culture Dear (Name) I have read an article that I find interesting; this document gives an explanation on the Chicaco’s culture and how women adopted it in their fight for equality in the world. The Chicanas is a movement that brought together women in the post World War 2 so that they may break the males ‘dominance in the world. Women have been manipulated in the past creating feminism. The purpose for writing you this letter is to inform you…