Race Relations In The Twentieth Century
With race relations, going into the twentieth century should seem to be a breeze. With the Great Migration occurring, everyone should finally live together in a “separate but equal” society everyone wanted in the 1800s. However, that did not occur because of race relations. What began with the Great Migration ended with African Americans attempting to gain their “double victory” over fascism overseas and racism on their territory. In fact, the race relations between African Americans and White citizens grew worse overtime only because of segregation and racism. African Americans living in the South had an epiphany hit them during the many years they were in the South: race relations down there would only get worse. The main reason why that
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Back in the 19th century, the white-on-black rape would just slip through the cracks. However, thanks to NAACP and Rosa Parks, it became a subtle part of the civil rights movement. This is all because of an incident when Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white men who forced her to go with them. Rosa Parks, investigating the incident, spread the story from out of Abbeville and turned it from an inner-city story into an international one. As she did this, “Rosa Parks and her local allies formed the Alabama Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor… [and] had organized what the Chicago Defender called the “strongest campaign for equal justice to be seen in a decade”” (McGuire 15). Once the story became international, it sparked an outrage and made it into the headlines of every newspaper. Because of this risky move on Rosa Parks’ part, everyone has called to the governor – Governor Sparks – to take immediate action against the six men. Overseas, where the African American soldiers were fighting for their double victory, “demanded [Governor Sparks to] use his gubernatorial power to intervene in the [Recy Taylor] case” (McGuire 35). The Recy Taylor case influenced the South despite how the suspects – who admitted to raping her – were never found guilty, as it made its way as a part of the civil rights
Back in the 19th century, the white-on-black rape would just slip through the cracks. However, thanks to NAACP and Rosa Parks, it became a subtle part of the civil rights movement. This is all because of an incident when Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white men who forced her to go with them. Rosa Parks, investigating the incident, spread the story from out of Abbeville and turned it from an inner-city story into an international one. As she did this, “Rosa Parks and her local allies formed the Alabama Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor… [and] had organized what the Chicago Defender called the “strongest campaign for equal justice to be seen in a decade”” (McGuire 15). Once the story became international, it sparked an outrage and made it into the headlines of every newspaper. Because of this risky move on Rosa Parks’ part, everyone has called to the governor – Governor Sparks – to take immediate action against the six men. Overseas, where the African American soldiers were fighting for their double victory, “demanded [Governor Sparks to] use his gubernatorial power to intervene in the [Recy Taylor] case” (McGuire 35). The Recy Taylor case influenced the South despite how the suspects – who admitted to raping her – were never found guilty, as it made its way as a part of the civil rights