The Struggle for African American Equality: 1915-1950 Many blacks in the south were exposed to very harsh situations on the physical and mental levels after the reconstruction era. Racial discrimination and the Jim Crow Laws put pressure on the blacks to stay away from whites as much as they can. After World War 1 boll weevil infestations devastated many cotton farms and their workers dreams of supporting their families. One Georgia man said he left the south because of his "desire to escape harsh
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African American History‚ 1877-1919 National | Year | African American | James Garfield inaugurated as President‚ assassinated later in the year; Chester Arthur becomes President | 1881 | Tennessee introduces racial segregation on the railways‚ opening a pattern of legalised discrimination in public facilities that will spread through the Southern states. | | | July The black activist Booker T. Washington (18561915) opens the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to provide agricultural and industrial
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ Ida B. Wells Barnett and the Fight for Fairness and Equality for Undocumented Immigrants Kristin Fine The women founders of sociological theory made it possible for women and members of other marginalized communities to gain access to the rights and privileges their white male counterparts enjoyed for centuries. In particular‚ the incredible lives of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ida B. Wells-Barnett allowed new avenues of academia and social change that had not previously
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Martin Luther King once said “We are not makers of history. We are made by history‚" which interprets how the surrounding events played a big role in my great grandfather’s life. At the age of 103‚ T.W. Cooper‚ my great grandfather witnessed plenty of extravagant events. Some of these events include: The Waco Horror‚ KKK‚ Emmett Till case‚ The Watergate scandal‚ O.J. Simpson trial‚ and the Trayvon Martin Trial. The Waco horror took a great toll on the African American community in 1916. Jesse
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It remains the last large lynching of the civil rights era. Number 3) The Burnham and Wayne Family Massacre On September 20‚ 1911‚ Alice May Turnham‚ her six-year-old daughter and three-year-old son were beaten to death with the blunt side of an axe. The dead were discovered by
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looks like‚ our environment have all been profoundly shaped by the car. Detroit was at the center of it all‚ the cars‚Detroit was ideally situated to be a center of the American automobile industry. Detroit was in the center of America’s industrial heartland. Everything needed to make cars was right at the fingetips of the 3 major producers
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discussion on sexual honor. Gentility was sought as a measure of worth derived from a requirement to be sociable‚ well educated‚ and moral. Brown has an excellent argument in chapters 7 and 8 that honor perpetuated violence in the case of the lynching laws. With just cause‚ and enough social support‚ just about anyone could be lynched. This was used to protect honor of the elite and the well spoken. These executions were done without judge orders or any trial. Therefore‚ they could be carried
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(although not legally imposed) is present in North; blacks live in run-down "colored districts"‚ attend dilapidated schools‚ and worked the lowest-paying jobs. iv. Anti-black riot in 1906 4 blacks are murdered. Lynching had peaked in the 1880’s to 1890’s‚ but about 75 lynchings occurred on average yearly. 3. Corporate Boardrooms and Factory Floors i. Many workers benefited; average annual wage rose ii. Two-thirds of immigrant girls entered the labor force in 1900’s‚ working for at
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Scottsboro Boys ¨Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister‚ we will not have parity. It´s very clear.¨ (Maya Angelou). The Scottsboro trials took place 1931-1937 because nine black teenagers that were on a train from Chattanooga to Memphis seeking work‚ had been accused of rape by two white women that were also on the train that day. In the PBS video that we watched in class about the Scottsboro Trials there was much racism against blacks used during their trials that made an
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the south was not ready yet to give the newly freed African Americans‚ all of the liberties as free citizens they had just been granted‚ this was just the beginning of the plight for freedom. This time period saw a sharp increase in the number of lynchings of free African Americans. According to Ida B Wells‚ this occurred due to the fact that the Southern whites strongly desired a way to control the Blacks. This meant that if a black man or woman violated one of the south’s Unwritten laws called the
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