Brownsville Raid Summary

During World War I, soldiers were promised a ‘bonus payment’ to make up for wages lost while serving in the military- one dollar for each day served on U.S. soil and one dollar and twenty-five cents for every day served overseas. However, the Bonus would not be paid until 1945. Veterans initially agreed, based on the healthy state of the economy (Keaney 1). The Great Depression came and made thousands of veterans unemployed, like most Americans at the time. The veterans felt that their bonus should be paid early so that they could provide food and shelter for themselves and their families (Rank and File Committee 1). Thousands of veterans joined together and built a ‘Hooverville’ on Anacostia Flats. President Hoover did not approve of an early

The Detroit Race Riot of June-July 1943 always had the question mark as to what the cause was for the riots. It has also been known as the “biggest and bloodiest race riots in the history of the United States” of America. A review that was completed by Welfred Holmes reveals some information from the book with the title: The Detroit Race Riot: A Study in Violence by Robert Shogan, and Tom Craig. The information that came to the fore was that the book explained the build-up to the riots as it occurred at least one year before the event. It was revealed that the morale of the Black people (Negroes as the book calls them) was very low. It was so low that it came to the point of not being concerned for their lives when it came to rioting. It

Smith, J. D. (Ed.). (2002). Black soldiers in blue: African American troops in the Civil War era. Univ of North Carolina

Historians should interpret and disperse the first-hand accounts that are compiled into the book 100 Years of Lynchings, to help Americans understand exactly what happened from 1865 to the late 1900s. These accounts are written from a variety of stand points, allowing for a wide array of opinions. The majority of the

Chicago’s Memorial Day massacre on May 30, 1937 is a famous account of the violence that the labor class suffered. It was a day that thousands of people that were a part of the protest suffered brutally at the hands of the Chicago police department. The author focuses on the incidents of the police brutality that protestors faced while attempting to protest in front of the steel company. She focuses on how these political organizations refuted the facts buy releasing inaccurate reports of the incident to reframe the public opinions. The article reveals accounts of the struggles and the injustice that the protestors faced through She also stresses the power of cultural history. She centers her argument on the representation and the politicization

Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself but it does rhyme”. When looking at the past one may see exactly what Mark Twain is speaking of. One major “rhyme” in history is the Trail of Tears in 1830-1836 and the Bataan Death March in 1942. These two events have major similarities that occurred between them and yet multiple differences. When comparing the two one has to look at the fact that individuals were upset about what happened to the United States soldiers during the Bataan Death March even though years prior the United States put the Native Americans in an identical situation during the Trail of Tears of 1838. The United State caused the death of Several Native Americans with no sympathy but willingly executed a man for doing the exact thing that their government allowed. When comparing these two major events, the Trail of Tears and the Bataan Death March, one

Being just in the American criminal justice system is a topic that is highly debated. Some believe the system is just, while others believe it is a flawed. The truth however, is that humans are not always right. God is the only who can practice justice in complete perfection, because humans are not perfect. Although many people in the American criminal justice system have good intentions, sadly that does not necessarily mean they are always just. The American criminal justice system tries to be truly just and has been before, but humans are not perfect and cannot always be truly just.

Following our nation’s reconstruction, racist sentiments continued to occur and White on Black violence was prevalent throughout American society. Racism was still alive with the oppression of African Americans through the Jim Crowe laws. Deprived of their civil and human rights, Blacks were reduced to a status of second-class citizenship. A tense atmosphere of racial hatred, ignorance and fear bred lawless mass violence, murder and lynching. The horrid act of lynching African Americans was thoroughly widespread in the United States, particularly in the South. Blacks were lynched for a range of things including rape, breaking a black code, and simply just

The forefathers of the United States built this country on the ideals of freedom and equality for all people. Unfortunately, the fight for equality and freedom did not end with the revolutionary war. The fight has continued throughout the decades. Many of these issues were fought in the courtroom. Auburn University created an online Alabama Encyclopedia, there, the following quote stated, “Scottsboro became an international cause celebre that dramatically encapsulated the American south troubled post reconstruction history of legal and extralegal racial violence, the social and political upheaval of the great depression, and the lingering cultural divide between the north and south.” (Scottsboro trials). The Fourteenth amendment clearly states

A Texas lynching is the illicit executing of a man under the guise of administration to equity, race, or custom. In spite of the fact that it frequently alludes to hanging, the word turned into a bland term for any type of execution without due procedure of law. It is difficult to gauge the recurrence of lynchings before the 1880's, it appears that they happened just sporadically before 1865, and were probably going to be the aftereffect of "wilderness equity" apportioned in zones where formal lawful frameworks did not exist.

On my way back to Miami, waiting for my flight at La Guardia Airport in New York and was eager to board my plane, I decided to watch the nearby television to pass time. That’s when I learned about who Michael Brown was. He was an unarmed black teenager, shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. On the TV screen were countless vivid images of the scene of Brown’s death and almost instantly it became ground zero for local outrage. Devastated to hear that yet another another teenage boy was killed by law enforcement, it was clear to me that there was an urgent need for justice in the US. The weeks following Brown’s death, news channels reported protesters flooding the streets near the

John Brown said before being hung,“(I) Never intended murder, treason, or destruction of property or the excite or incite the slave to rebellion or make insurrection.” During 1857, John Brown, an abolitionist, was raising money to help abolish slavery in the South, also to get an uprising of the slaves and to create a rebellion.The main plan of the raid was to get the slaves to join his rebellion, but it failed as a raid. Even though it failed as a raid it created a greater divide between the North and South. The last words of Brown were given to a guard before his hanging and those words were, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” As John Brown hinted at bloodshed

Mr. Ewell is considered an underhanded, white man who falls on the outer rings in Maycomb’s

World War II was appalling, but it’s a big part in today’s history. Prisoners of war (POW) camps were in many countries that were involved in the war. Japanese POW camps were particularly gruesome, nearly all the prisoners suffered, whether it was from starvation, illness or torture.

So many people have been in history who fought, died, and stood up for their rights. A lot of them did incredible things for the world and the country that should be remembered by everyone. They all are different heroes in their own specific ways. People should be equal and every person deserves to be treated the way they want to be treated. No one can be divided into specific groups based on their race or skin color like it was many years ago. In the book, “The Port Chicago 50,” by Steve Sheinkin, the author shows a completely different time and how people were treated compared to today. This book is about how many brave and courageous sailors survived a terrifying explosion, and even though, at the time no one looked at them as important men because of the unfair treatment, they still didn't give up and they made history. Therefore, it is important to tell stories of all Americans, especially Joe Small, Thurgood Marshall, Dorie Miller, and Robert Roth because everyone should know what happened in history, what