United States‚ the mestizo. In the first chapter‚ The Homeland‚ Aztlan‚ she describes how since the conquering of Mexico by Cortez‚ Anglo-Americans have slowly seized their land. The mestizo population was forced further down Mexico through fear of lynchings and the poverty faced. Many had no alternative but to become sharecroppers and could not afford to pay back their debts. Until finally the Anglo-Americans gained complete political power and in 1848 created a fence around their “new found land” to
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In the article “Vandalized by Speech” by Gregory Rodriguez‚ he claims that hate speech is form of vandalism. He compares the subject to a broken window; if left untended‚ it signals people to do more damage. Rodriguez states that any discussion of the subject leads to the invocation of the 1st Amendment. He goes on to say that hate speech is a threat to our democracy and society‚ and it should be regulated. Additionally‚ Rodriguez argues that hate speech is making appearances everyone from political
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unable to exercise that right. White local and state officials systematically kept blacks from voting through formal methods‚ such as poll taxes and literacy tests‚ and through cruder methods of fear and intimidation‚ which included beatings and lynching. The inability to vote was only one of many problems blacks encountered in the racist society around them‚ but the civil-rights officials who decided to zero in on voter registration understood its crucial significance as well the white supremacists
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and after she is selected as the "winner" of the lottery. Tessie questions the tradition and correctness of the lottery as well as her humble status as a wife. It might as well be this insubordination that leads to her selection by the lottery and lynching by the angry mob of villagers. It is human nature to cling on to the past. Unfortunately‚ clinging on to the past leaves no room for progress even when it is necessary. The townspeople have made the bloody ritual a masquerade for their selfishness
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Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit caused extreme controversy when it published. This was due to its language‚ its plot about a mixed race couple‚ and its outrageously precise portrayal of racial injustice in the 1920s south. During this time‚ white people had the upper hand and were not obligated to consider their intentions toward black people. However‚ Smith’s depictions transcend further than racial injustice. In addressing white people’s behavior toward black people‚ Strange Fruit illustrates the
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slow and painful death‚ while also avoiding him getting into any new trouble. This is only one of the parallel episodes in the book that involve euthanasia‚ or mercy killing. George‚ in killing Lennie‚ avoided a slow and painful death for him by lynching -- or getting killed by a mob without the right to a trial in court. Curley wanted to shoot him in the guts‚ where he would have a slow and painful death. If he were locked in an insane asylum‚ they would have left him by himself‚ having nobody to
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Challenges During the Gilded Age There were many groups of people who faced challenges and struggled in America during the Gilded Age. Immigrants‚ African Americans‚ and factory workers were all groups of people that struggled in many ways during this time period. Some of these groups struggles were similar‚ but some were different. One group that faced many struggles compared to others were immigrants. When immigrants first arrived in the United States they would be sent to Ellis Island to become
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Soon‚ some 10‚000 white men and boys began gathering on Decatur Street in the Five Points area downtown. The newspapers with their incendiary headlines were circulated around and the mob soon turned violent‚ running down‚ beating‚ stabbing‚ and/or lynching black
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1867. During the next two years Klansmen wearing masks‚ white cardboard hats and draped in white sheets‚ tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites. Although the Klan was often able to achieve its aims by terror alone‚ whippings and lynchings were also used‚ not only against blacks but also against the so-called carpetbaggers and scalawags. (www.encyclopedia.com) The second Ku Klux Klan was a nationwide organization that flourished after World War I and was founded by William J. Simmons
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with Count Bassie in 1934 and then did some work Artie Shaw in 1938 and became the first black women to perform with a white orchestra. When she was working with Columbia in the 1930’s she heard the poem “Strange fruit” which is a poem about the lynching of black men. Columbia would not produce the record so she went to record it with another label. The label she found that would let her record the song was Commodore. The song eventually became one o her greats. “Strange Fruit” prompted Billie
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