Racial Prejudice: The Fight America has yet to Overcome In the 1930s‚ racial prejudice took over the lives of most citizens. African Americans were treated poorly and considered less than white people‚ so when Atticus Finch was in charge of defending Tom Robinson‚ a black man‚ who was accused of rape‚ he needed to use every tactic and technique to prove his innocence. Harper Lee clearly develops Atticus’ argument during the trial to convince the jury to vote for Tom Robinson’s acquittal and to fight
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accommodations‚ and transportation‚ along with the map of the United States. A student can scroll over each state while selecting one of the categories and learn about how the Jim Crow laws affected the state in that category. The Population & Migration and Lynching & Riots tabs are similar in that a student can scroll over the states and see statistics on how many white and black men migrated to the South‚ how many were lynched‚ and how many riots occurred over 20 year intervals from 1870 to 1960. This tool
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represent southern rebellion or resistance to the developments of reconstruction such as the 14th and 15th Amendments which try to promote equality regardless of race. This image counters the revolution by promoting terrorist-like activities such as lynching and the targeting of helpless victims like the degraded race the freedmen were during this time. The Jim Crow laws created in 1877‚ which enforced racial segregation‚ along with the horrific acts as seen in Document I by the KKK demonstrates the
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The 1920’s were a period or rapid growth and change in America. After World War I American’s were introduced to a lifestyle of lavishness they had never encountered before. It was a period of radical thought and ideas. It was in this time period that the idea of the Harlem Renaissance was born. The ideology behind the Harlem Renaissance was to create the image of the "New Negro". The image of African-American’s changed from rural‚ uneducated "peasants" to urban‚ sophisticated‚ cosmopolites. Literature
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White women’s bodies were profoundly more protected by the legal system‚ and this was demonstrated through the prosecution of the men accused of assaulting them. In Ida B. Wels’s newspaper‚ Memphis Free Speech‚ she documented the lynching of “5 negroes” charged with “raping white women”‚ and their immediate assumed guilt because of the “old thread bear lie”‚ where black men were stereotyped as “black beast rapists”. Another instance of white protection was the trial of Henry Smith
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The 19th century was an era of corruption‚ serious social problems and economic growth.These were all veiled by a thin gold lining. This era was referred to as the “Gilded Age”This name‚ given my Mark Twain means that this era was glimmering from the surface and corrupt from within and though centuries have passed‚ many can agree that we are still facing similar problems in our current time.From politics‚ foreign policy‚ economics and social issues it is as if we are reliving the Gilded Age in a
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desegregating the educational system despite being reluctant to enforce integration in the south. One of the key events at the time was the Little Rock Nine‚ where nine black students tried to join Little Rock High School and were met with threats of lynching and abuse from the locals. This event attracted wide-spread media coverage that went all over the world and appalled everyone. This forced Eisenhower to step in‚ to protect America’s name as the ‘Protector of Freedom’‚ and get the students to school
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the new demographics. In the early 1900’s‚ Southern Europeans‚ including Italians‚ immigrated to the United States. They were prosecuted for their ethnicity and religion. The largest lynching in U.S history was done to Italian Americans‚ not African Americans. John Parker‚ who helped organize the mob for the lynching‚ said “Italians are just a little worse than the Negro‚ being if anything filthier in [their] habits‚ lawless‚ and treacherous." (Faclo). This deep rooted hate eventually passed‚ fully
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In the period following 1865‚ the understanding and recognition of being accepted into a newly forming just society was becoming the base on expressing and citing beliefs for others to agree upon in terms of racial theories. Both individual and social groups like Booker T. Washington‚ W.E.B. DuBoise‚ Ida B. Wells‚ and the Ku Klux Klan were expressing what they thought a just society should look like and were in hopes that their actions and theories of these beliefs would assist society toward agreeing
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expiration/ These fruitful trees are rooted in bloody soil and torment/ Things haven’t really changed” (The Killing Season” 42-46). “Strangefruit” is in reference to Billy Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit‚” which was written as a protest against the lynching of African-Americans
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