West Memphis 3

In Missouri the year of 1993, 17 year old Christopher Simmons and two friends Charles benjamin and John Tessmer planned to murder Shirley Crook. The friends planned to commit a burglary and murder by breaking and entering, they were going to tie up the victim. The boys met up during the night but Tessmer dropped out of the plan, Simmons and Benjamin proceeded with the plan and broke into Mrs.Crooks home and bounded her hands and covered her eyes, they then drove her to the state park and threw…

together again.” This quote came from none other than Damien Echols, the so called “ringleader” of the Worldwide group of teens known as The West Memphis Three. The West Memphis Three were three teenages: Jason Baldwin, Damian Echols, and Jessie Misskelley. These three teens were accused of murdering three little boys along the bank of a creek. The West Memphis Three and Sacco and Vanzetti are two different crimes of murder. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder of two…

EREPORT # 18552 stated the following: The abuse occurred in Desoto County. The incident happened in the Summer of 2014. On 12/15/15, Kyle shared with me (Mother, Brenda Berry) that over the summer of 2014, Uncle Johnny touched him in ways that made him feel uncomfortable. He said it happened about 8 times over the summer 2014. He said he rubbed his arm and bottom while staring at him. Kyle also said on 2 occasions Uncle Johnny rubbed Kyle's penis and groin area. Kyle shared this with me 12/15/15…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous and respectable man when he was alive. He was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He gave many sermons and speeches in his day. On one very important day, 4 February 1968, he gave a sermon called “The Drum Major Instinct;” it was based off an adaptation of J. Wallace Hamilton’s “Drum-Major Instinct.” In King’s sermon, he explains what the drum major instinct is and why you need to be cautious with it. King believed that you shouldn’t use…

from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967 and was on the loose for over eleven months. The story was told that James Earl Ray traveled to Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 and checked into a room across from the Lorraine Motel (National Archives, 1979). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to speak on behalf of the sanitation workers of Memphis on April 3, 1968. On April…

The internal and external conflicts are very conspicuous in Richard Wright's story Black Boy. When the boy's father left, his internal problem of hunger became closely associated with his father. After the boy started doing household chores such as cleaning and shopping, that gave way to another internal problem, responsibility. The boy was not yet ready for such a responsibility; he had to grow up fast in too short a period. On the boy's first trip to the supermarket, he came across an angry…

Well known American Baptist minister and activist, Martin Luther King Jr., optimizes the call to action for his fellow community to resist the unjust laws of the time in his speech, I’ve Been to the Mountain Top. When this speech was delivered, the act of discrimination was worsening, calling for a reform by the colored community. At that point many small victories had been made but Martin Luther King was not satisfied. In this speech, Martin Luther King emphasizes the issue of injustice and the…

I don’t know how the wonderful music history of Memphis pass me by but somehow It did! I have always heard that Memphis is known for its music history, especially the blues, but I never investigated the theory for myself. The instructor at the college challenged me to write a paper about the history of the Stax Museum in a reflection paper and I am really glad she did. It influenced me to finally take the time to view the history of Memphis firsthand starting with the Stax Museum. The research,…

takes us back to a time 100 years after slavery where the descendants were consigned to the bottom of the economic ladder. Yet, Memphis was spared the upheaval of Little Rock, Selma and Birmingham because of modest gains of access to movies, libraries and lunch counters. Nevertheless, the seething volcano was building up pressure in the public works department of Memphis. Complaints concerning malfunctioning equipment had been an ongoing cause. Although I 1963, T. O. Jones led 32 fellow workers…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed April 4th 1968, while in Memphis, Tennessee. The night of King’s death, Robert F. Kennedy addressed a rally between 17th and Broadway in Indianapolis, Indiana, informing them of King’s untimely passing. Kennedy, who had been in Indianapolis for the Democratic Presidential Nominations, went to the rally, which was set in the heart of Indianapolis’ African-American ghetto. Kennedy makes the claim to this captive audience, “we have to make an effort to…