outlines section 1-3 Concepts/Catching us up to 1877 Section 1 • Scientific Racism • Categorizing mankind • Christianity and monogenetics • polygenetics • American school of Ethnology – Samuel George Morton – Dr. Josiah Nott • Phrenology – George Combe – Popularization: Lorenzo and Orson Fowler • The Ascendance of the Aryan race ideology • Count Arthur de Gobineau – An Essay on
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comparing the role of women to the main male civil rights figures and who made more of a significant development in the civil rights movements. Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a major female civil rights activist whose main focus was lynching. She wrote many articles about how lynching was “a systematic attempt to subordinate
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northern regions. Innis continued to argue that with the dominance of the Toronto-Montreal corridor over the eastern‚ western‚ and northern peripherals‚ a special relationship grew. Innis described the relationship between the two states as that of a heartland and that of a hinterland. The heart needed the accumulation of staples to propel their economy and political power by exploiting the hinterland. Harold gives an example of the fur trade which determined Canadian boundaries by far. Fur notably resulted
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The reoccurring violence in Cairo Il caused a huge decline in the population over time. Riots‚ mobs‚ and lynchings were happening everywhere you turned. The main reason that lynchings were happening were from rapes. Another major event and events that happened that caused a huge decline in the population was all of the mob activities. What would cause such events like these to occur? Why would someone want to do cruel events like raping an innocent women? What would cause someone to do so much as
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southern cities. The violence they displayed were no out-the-blue outburst of racism but shaped by social forces. The Klan believed that blacks would weaken their society and sought violence as a solution to remain politically and socially superior. Lynching was also linked to the anti-black violence of 1889-1909. Over seventeen hundred were
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run in the same direction (Smith). The United States past also contains mob mentality. The first incident was the iconic lynching in Indiana. The lynching is famous due to the photographer catching the gruesome acts on camera. The mob had dragged Tom‚ and Abe out of the jail cell they were inside‚ then lynched them (“Strange Fruit: Anniversary). The photo taken at the lynching shows two black men hanging from the tree‚ along with spectators watching the awful event‚ and they were watching as if it
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People change and ways change every day. Imagine what could happen over a series of years. Let’s think back to America in the 1930’s. The white race would treat the negro race very poorly‚ there was lynching‚ false accusations of blacks‚ and public segregation. Many books about this time were written to show how racist the whites were to the blacks. Racism and segregation in the 1930’s was crueler than in the book "To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. Blacks and whites were kept separate
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The late 1800s and early 1900s found the United States in the midst of a dramatic shift. Not only was race-based discrimination the Consensus theory among whites‚ it was also legally enforced. Institutionalized racism left African Americans without citizenship‚ voting rights‚ civil liberties‚ and access to higher education. It also left them without justice‚ due process‚ and protection. Even though the ownership of humans had been eradicated by the 13th Amendment in 1865‚ the black community was
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World and Me” (Richard Wright Reader (Book Review))” Wright’s poem “I Have Seen black Hands” reveals his power to express the explicitly revolutionary radicalism of the African American lives. In his poem “Between The World and Me” Wright talks of lynching in the deep south. The description and point of view of that of a black man expresses the the violence Wright has come to grow on because of the White man fears. The poem supports Wright’s stories of Uncle Tom’s Children that would inform the violentness
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together. I speak from experience when saying this. I have a motorcycle run called Rattlesnake’s Run for Autism‚ and we have been doing it for 5 years now‚ I took it over when my father died in 2011‚ everything we raise goes to Autism Society the Heartland. From there they use the money we raise to send autistic children to camp that their parents would not have been able to otherwise. The key to a good motorcycle run is putting together a good committee‚ having a good cause‚ and having several different
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