13th Film Analysis

The Tuskegee study was an unethical experiment preformed on over 400 African American men with syphilis. The trials led to the remaining living participants to win due to unlawful study. It also led to the death of over 300 participants and children contracting syphilis as well. Today, being 2017, we have came a long way with race and medical research. Not only have we developed as a society and country, but we 've produced laws since then to protect those involved in studies.

By this time, many Mexican immigrants ended up being arrested and imprisoned based on Senator Blease’s proposal. Second to liquor charges, immigration charges had the second-largest population of incarcerated people. This led to the three federal prisons (at the time) to become overcrowded (Hernandez

He saw that racial discrimination was a big problem and that it effected the economic growth of the country. Johnson used the FBI to bring down the Ku Klux Klan. He also signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965. In addition to the many thing Johnson did, he also nominate Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court. Ultimately making Marshall the first African American justice on the Supreme Court.

That’s because during this time, the white man gained more power while the black man was left as a stepping stool. Although slavery was abolished, there was still plenty of unequal treatment towards African Americans. In many states, Jim Crow laws were passed that segregated men of different colors. Many were lynched or executed for a crime they never committed. Many individuals voiced their concern over the abuse that others received, and many

“From 1982 to 1989”, the percentage of “drug-related murders” out of all types of murders went up “2 to 7.4 percent”. This can be attributed to the introduction of crack into society because crack was introduced during that time frame. One person said that the innocents killed in these were the casualties of fights between drug dealers who are fighting for their spot within the drug industry. The fact that innocent people were caught in the fights of drug dealers would cause people to feel unsafe where they live, scared of being the next victims of drug dealers’ violence. These fights between crack drug dealers would not have occurred had the demand for crack not been so high, thus Americans brought these fights, although unintentionally, on themselves by giving rise to a crack

It is arguable that Fugitive Slave Act decreased abolitionist activity because it provided incentive for Northerners to comply with it. Federal commissioners who determined whether a person was truly free or not was paid a double fee whenever they decided someone a fugitive. Not only that, but any Northerners caught helping blacks, runaway or not, faced the risk of a thousand dollar fine and up to a year in jail. But, as argued by historian Lincoln Austin Mullen, in his article Fugitive Slave Laws (1793 and 1850), “Northern reaction to the law was swift and angry. Many Northerners, including some who had never before supported antislavery efforts, decried the injustice of the

The setting in this book is somewhere around 1835 to 1845 so blacks were still minorities to whites. The majority if not all blacks were slaves working for white people. They had many more regulations than whites did that followed with strict deadly consequences. White supremacist were even killing blacks because of their physical appearances and cultural differences. In this novel, Jim is talking about how if he runs away he would be a free man.

But as long as you are a little more careful, you will realize that how general it is in our life. For instance, African-American are 33% more likely than whites to be detained while facing a felony trial. Or even more strikingly, nearly half of all hate crimes committed in America have to do with race. (FBI, 2016). As we can see, although there is no obviously racism like massacre happens nowadays, the racial discrimination phenomena is like a dirty mud which has split to many tiny pieces hiding in the corner of our

Scout retells their story and eventually Tom’s death. In the article Lynching by Mark Twain, Mark talks about how the white population are cowards, but if a few brave men don’t participate in lynching, the rest of the population will catch on. Also in the article There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the transAtlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in human rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach- and in the destruction of lives by Andrew Cockburn, we can see the horror of people in Serbia selling girls into slavery. Both articles incorporate the themes in To Kill A Mockingbird.

The novel describes the situation of the black community and by the plot showcases that the african americans weren 't even given the basic right to be tried fairly in court. The blacks in the 1930s accounted almost 10 percent of the american population and faced atrocities which later were called the black holocaust. As many as 2805 African Americans were killed within a period of 50 years from 1885 till 1935. The novel is based on Atticus Finch, a lawyer from Maycomb. He is respected not only in the white community of the county but also the coloured community.

When you think of slavery typically your mind wonders to 1800’s during slavery in America, but what many do not realize is that we are currently in the middle of a new slavery system called Mass Incarnation. With the rise of this new system within our Department of Criminal Justice has the biggest injustices between the races and are more divided than ever before. One which corrupts many citizens lives on a daily basis that are stripping away rights to vote, receive assistance, and so much more. Where we have 1 in 3 black men incarcerated compared to 1 in every 17 white men. When did this begin?

He grants his 99 year old grandma credit for pushing him over the edge to pursue human rights as a whole. Jealous has accomplished many feats, but he’s most famous for his push in Mississippi. He was sent down to Mississippi on a mission to save a black college from being turned into a prison. After months of organizing protesters, he and others led the second largest civil rights protest in Mississippi history. The protest turned out to be a success and the black college was never transformed into a prison.

An example of criminal code violations in which it is apparent inequity in sentencing is the “war on drugs.” This so called war on drugs is a campaign to prohibit drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the goal of reducing illegal drug trade. Since this war on drugs the nation has seen a dramatic increase in the number of people in prisons and jails for drugs offenses. In 1980, 40,000 people were either waiting trial or serving time for a drug related offense that number has increased to around 500,000 in today’s time (American Bar Association). The problem which arose with this drug war was the disproportionate law enforcement presence in African American communities. A study done in “2005 showed that African Americans represented

the criminal justice system is the biggest source of unequal treatment and injustice, where people get punished based on their race. African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. In New York City, Latinos and Blacks get stopped at a higher rate than whites. Blacks are more likely to remain in prison awaiting trial than whites (Quigley). According to New York City Police Department, “NY police 80% stops were of blacks and Latinos, when whites were stopped, only 8%” (Quigley).

Many officers tend to convict minorities more often than whites according to this same logic. They construct "black" appearing individuals as more likely to commit crime and as a result, it has been found in reports that "police shoot and kill blacks almost twice as frequently as any other racial group" (Rosenfeld). Less than two years ago, Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot unarmed black teen Michael Brown, who many claimed did not pose immediate threat. Darren Wilson was able to evade conviction of second-degree murder because "grand jury instructions in Missouri, which are read to the panel before it decides whether to press charges, allow police to use deadly force if the officer believes it is 'immediately necessary '" (Rosenfeld). Those that look like Michael Brown are at a disadvantage because the law tends to side with police officers regardless of who was truly at fault.