Lynching in the United States

In 1865 slavery in the United States of America ended, and since then the Black Community has been told to: get over it, move on, and, “leave the past in the past.” Since 1865 this country has taken steps toward making “improvements”; in the year 2008 we elected our first President with brown skin! Is that progress or what? Has the United States of America, the land of the free, home of the brave, and the place where all were created equal, left its race issues in the past? As much as we would…

One major goal of the American Civil Rights movement was to give all people equal rights, regardless of race or sex. Many people in the United States have a hard time trying to fight for what they believe in, because of their race or sex. The fight for Civil Rights is still important today in the U.S. Ida B. Wells changed the progress of Civil Rights, and her fight for change is still evident today. There are many reasons why Ida B. Wells started writing civil rights articles. One reason being,…

The Progressive Era was a time of a lot of change in our government, sociality, and rights. People called Muckrakers solved problems that people didn´t realize that were happening. Muckraking is the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way. Muckraking journalism had a positive effect on the Progressive Era in the early 20th, but today it stills has the same effect. Some examples of muckrakers of today and in that time are Nellie Bly…

fix social problems were journalists like Jane Addams, Jacob Riis, and and Ida Tarbell. Theses people were all powerful voices in the progressive era. The voice that had the biggest impact was Theodore Roosevelt. He became the president of the United States and changed many things during his presidency. Overall, they did a decent job of what they were trying to accomplish. During the progressive era, there was a lot…

the black community have created a chasm of inequality that may never be closed. The United States government (allegedly) used drugs to create a crack epidemic that resulted in the death, poverty, or arrest of millions of Americans. As Kanye West put it “we’ve been hanging from the same tree ever since.” He is alluding to the lynching that slaves and Blacks living in the Jim Crow south were subject to. Lynching was a form a punishment for slaves but it was also a tool for white Americans to…

In 1968, the last recorded lynching in the United States occurred. Forty-eight years later, African Americans continue to face the threat of extrajudicial fatalities at the hands of those that have vowed to protect them. In the United States, the conversation over racially biased police has grown tremendously in the last six years. In a Wall Street Journal poll, 96 percent of respondents expected racial unrest over the summer of 2015 (Hook). The deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray sparked…

where 620,000 American soldiers died because of the different viewpoints between the North and the South. The years following this great battle molded our nation to become the land of the free and the home of the brave. The next 50 years for the United States of America were marked by the quest for freedom of different sorts, expansion as a nation, and modernization. It began with the hard-fought battle for freedom of the African-American slaves and progressed to the other civil liberties for…

the beginning of the united states, this what exactly what happened. It was a sluggish time for women. They endured struggles and circumstances that molded their lives. As movements, crisis, and upheavals occurred in their lives, they became stronger than ever, each and every single day. They moved forcefully with determination, despite the prevailing situations. So how did women’s lives change? Well at the start of the seventeenth century, women migrated to the united states for a life of…

basis and have had to endure most of their lives. While many argue that black Americans have been given enough equal opportunity considerations, our government has yet to address the atrocities it has committed through unfair discriminatory local, state, and federal policies since its inception. As a result, millions of black Americans today continue to suffer great injustices. A thorough examination of black history and experience will set the foundation for addressing current and past…

left out of opportunities for achievement. This disregard of racial oppression in America has prevailed and greatly influenced American writers. It appears throughout American literature in conversation with itself the racial situations in the United States. From its inception, America has dealt with the question of equality, particularly between blacks and white. The Founding Fathers wrote equality as a basic human right in the Constitution at the same time they decided to allow…