During the 1930’s, the world’s attention was riveted on the “Scottsboro Boys”, nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama. This case, more than any other event in the south, riveted barbarous treatment of blacks This case began on March 21, 1931, when a number of white and black youths were traveling on a freight train. A fight broke out between the two, the whites were thrown off the train and the blacks were about to be charged with assault. Two white women had been found on the train wearing boy clothing, and fearing prosecution for their sexual activity with the white men on the train, they agreed to testify against the black youths. The all-white jury convicted the nine, and all but the youngest, which was 12 years old, were sentenced to death. The announcement of the verdict and sentences brought a roar of protest in the North. The communist party took charge of the case and carried out a two-fold battle.After persistent pressure both Northern and Southern groups, Alabama freed the four youngest after serving 6yrs in jail; later paroled all but Patterson. Patterson escaped in 1948, 3yrs. Later he was convicted of manslaughter and died in prison.
Meagan Life in 1930s At the beginning of the 1930s, more than 15 million Americans fully one quarter of all wage earning workers were unemployed. President Herbert Hoover did not do much to alleviate the crisis: patience and self-reliance, he argued, were all Americans needed to get them through this “passing incident in our national lives.” In 1932, Americans elected a new president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who pledged to use the power of the federal government to make Americans lives better. Over the next nine years, Roosevelt’s New Deal created a new role for government in American life. Though the New Deal alone did not end the Depression, it did provide an unprecedented safety net to millions of suffering Americans. The 1930s saw natural disasters as well as manmade ones: For most of the decade, people in the plains states suffered through the worst droughts in American history, as well as hundreds of severe dust storms, or “black Blizzards,” that carried away the soil and made it impossible to plant crops. The Great Depression changed the lives of people who lived and farmed on the Great Plains and in turn, changed America. The government programs that helped them to live through the 1930s changed the future of agriculture forever. Weather touched every part of life in the "Dirty 30s": dust, insects, summer heat and winter cold. York County farm families didn't have heat, light or indoor bathrooms like people who lived in town. Many farm families raised most of their own food – eggs and chickens, milk and beef from their own cows, and vegetables from their gardens.
Ku Klux Klan Founded in 1866, the (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s reconstruction polices aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. There member’s waged on underground campaign of intimidation and violence. Burning crosses and staging rallies, parades, and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews , blacks and organized labor.The Ku Klux Klan activity including bombing of black schools and churches and violence against black and white in the south.
www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan NAACP Founded in 1909 the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. From the ballot box of the classroom, the thousands of dedicated workers, organizations leaders and members who make up the NAACP continue to fight for social justice for all Americans. It was originally called the National Negro Committee.
Malcolm X Born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm X was a prominent Black Nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and '60s. Due largely to his efforts, the Nation of Islam grew from a mere 400 members at the time he was released from prison in 1952 to 40,000 members by 1960. Articulate, passionate and a naturally gifted and inspirational orator, Malcolm X exhorted blacks to cast off the shackles of racism "by any means necessary," including violence. The fiery civil rights leader broke with the group shortly before his assassination, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been preparing to deliver a speech Affirmative Action Affirmative action is one of the most effective tools for redressing the injustices caused by our nation's historic discrimination against people of color and women, and for leveling what has long been an uneven playing field. A centuries-long legacy of racism and sexism has not been eradicated despite the gains made during the civil rights era. Avenues of opportunity for those previously excluded remain far too narrow. We need affirmative action now more than
The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash on October 1929. Wall Street went into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the years, people stopped spending and investment dropped, which made declines in the industrial output. Levels of unemployment were rising as failing companies laid off workers. In 1933, 13 to 15 million Americans had no job and half the country’s banks had failed. Even though the president helped lessen the depression in the 1930s, the economy didn’t fully get on its feet until after 1939 when WWII came around.
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought during the depression in the 1930s. The Great Plains has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds. When the drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the soil lacked the strong root system of grass as an anchor, so the wind easily picked up the loose topsoil and made it into dust clouds. The dust storms were devastating, choking cattle and killing pasture lands. The storms drove 60% of the population from the Great Plains region. The farmers couldn’t plant, and the cattle couldn’t survive breathing in the dust.
Emmet Till was a black boy born July 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois. When visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. On August 28, 1955 he was kidnapped by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, who beat Till then shot him in the head. Till was found on the bank of the Tallahatchie River, his face was mutilated beyond recognition, and was identified by the ring on his finger, engraved with his father's initials—L.T. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam was tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. At the age of two she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and younger brother. In December 1943 Rosa also joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She was known for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on, while riding a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. She was arrested and found guilty of violating segregation laws. This event help start the civil rights movement. Rosa died in 1977.
The Jim Crow laws were created in 1876 simply to segregate black people from the white population. Some English Dictionaries define "Jim Crow" as the name for an implement that can straighten or bend iron rails,or along with Jim Crowism. Systems or practices of racial discrimination or segregation. The American English Dictionary suggests that the name only emerged in dictionaries in 1994, but it was clearly used generally in 1876.
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During the 1930’s, the world’s attention was riveted on the “Scottsboro Boys”, nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama. This case, more than any other event in the south, riveted barbarous treatment of blacks
This case began on March 21, 1931, when a number of white and black youths were traveling on a freight train. A fight broke out between the two, the whites were thrown off the train and the blacks were about to be charged with assault. Two white women had been found on the train wearing boy clothing, and fearing prosecution for their sexual activity with the white men on the train, they agreed to testify against the black youths.
The all-white jury convicted the nine, and all but the youngest, which was 12 years old, were sentenced to death. The announcement of the verdict and sentences brought a roar of protest in the North. The communist party took charge of the case and carried out a two-fold battle.After persistent pressure both Northern and Southern groups, Alabama freed the four youngest after serving 6yrs in jail; later paroled all but Patterson. Patterson escaped in 1948, 3yrs. Later he was convicted of manslaughter and died in prison.
Meagan
ReplyDeleteLife in 1930s
At the beginning of the 1930s, more than 15 million Americans fully one quarter of all wage earning workers were unemployed. President Herbert Hoover did not do much to alleviate the crisis: patience and self-reliance, he argued, were all Americans needed to get them through this “passing incident in our national lives.” In 1932, Americans elected a new president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who pledged to use the power of the federal government to make Americans lives better. Over the next nine years, Roosevelt’s New Deal created a new role for government in American life. Though the New Deal alone did not end the Depression, it did provide an unprecedented safety net to millions of suffering Americans. The 1930s saw natural disasters as well as manmade ones: For most of the decade, people in the plains states suffered through the worst droughts in American history, as well as hundreds of severe dust storms, or “black Blizzards,” that carried away the soil and made it impossible to plant crops. The Great Depression changed the lives of people who lived and farmed on the Great Plains and in turn, changed America. The government programs that helped them to live through the 1930s changed the future of agriculture forever. Weather touched every part of life in the "Dirty 30s": dust, insects, summer heat and winter cold. York County farm families didn't have heat, light or indoor bathrooms like people who lived in town. Many farm families raised most of their own food – eggs and chickens, milk and beef from their own cows, and vegetables from their gardens.
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ReplyDeleteKu Klux Klan
Founded in 1866, the (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s reconstruction polices aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. There member’s waged on underground campaign of intimidation and violence. Burning crosses and staging rallies, parades, and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews , blacks and organized labor.The Ku Klux Klan activity including bombing of black schools and churches and violence against black and white in the south.
www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan
NAACP
Founded in 1909 the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. From the ballot box of the classroom, the thousands of dedicated workers, organizations leaders and members who make up the NAACP continue to fight for social justice for all Americans. It was originally called the National Negro Committee.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/NAACP.h
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Born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm X was a prominent Black Nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and '60s. Due largely to his efforts, the Nation of Islam grew from a mere 400 members at the time he was released from prison in 1952 to 40,000 members by 1960. Articulate, passionate and a naturally gifted and inspirational orator, Malcolm X exhorted blacks to cast off the shackles of racism "by any means necessary," including violence. The fiery civil rights leader broke with the group shortly before his assassination, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been preparing to deliver a speech
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is one of the most effective tools for redressing the injustices caused by our nation's historic discrimination against people of color and women, and for leveling what has long been an uneven playing field. A centuries-long legacy of racism and sexism has not been eradicated despite the gains made during the civil rights era. Avenues of opportunity for those previously excluded remain far too narrow. We need affirmative action now more than
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ReplyDeleteThe Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash on October 1929. Wall Street went into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the years, people stopped spending and investment dropped, which made declines in the industrial output. Levels of unemployment were rising as failing companies laid off workers.
In 1933, 13 to 15 million Americans had no job and half the country’s banks had failed. Even though the president helped lessen the depression in the 1930s, the economy didn’t fully get on its feet until after 1939 when WWII came around.
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought during the depression in the 1930s. The Great Plains has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds. When the drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the soil lacked the strong root system of grass as an anchor, so the wind easily picked up the loose topsoil and made it into dust clouds. The dust storms were devastating, choking cattle and killing pasture lands. The storms drove 60% of the population from the Great Plains region. The farmers couldn’t plant, and the cattle couldn’t survive breathing in the dust.
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ReplyDeleteEmmet Till was a black boy born July 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois. When visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. On August 28, 1955 he was kidnapped by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, who beat Till then shot him in the head. Till was found on the bank of the Tallahatchie River, his face was mutilated beyond recognition, and was identified by the ring on his finger, engraved with his father's initials—L.T. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam was tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them.
Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. At the age of two she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and younger brother. In December 1943 Rosa also joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She was known for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on, while riding a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. She was arrested and found guilty of violating segregation laws. This event help start the civil rights movement. Rosa died in 1977.
Malasia
ReplyDeleteThe Jim Crow laws were created in 1876 simply to segregate black people from the white population. Some English Dictionaries define "Jim Crow" as the name for an implement that can straighten or bend iron rails,or along with Jim Crowism. Systems or practices of racial discrimination or segregation. The American English Dictionary suggests that the name only emerged in dictionaries in 1994, but it was clearly used generally in 1876.