Emmett Louis Till Thesis

Racism and Segregation in the South During the 1930’s, the Great Depression caused poverty throughout the United States. People all over the country went to extreme measures to earn money and survive. Several people hopped on trains illegally to travel and try to start new lives for themselves. Some women resorted to prostitution around these hobo camps to earn their living. Two such women were Ruby Bates and Victoria Price.

In 1931, a group of African-American boys were tried and convicted of a crime that none of them had committed. The nine young, black males had been riding the rails looking for work when a fight broke out between them and a group of white boys. The youths were arrested for vagrancy then tried for the false accusation of rape. The case of the Scottsboro Boys showed the true minority injustice of the South do to the Jim Crow Laws.

Modern-Day Witch Hunts: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys Jessica Singh English III Honors Mrs. Melisse Aiello October 29th, 2015 Jessica Singh Mrs. Melisse Aiello English III Honors October 29th, 2015 Modern-Day Witch Hunts: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys As shocking as it may seem to hear, witch hunts still exist in modern times. One of the most prevalent examples of a modern day witch hunt was the case of the Scottsboro boys in the 1930s.

There have been many rivalries over the years between Blacks and Whites. With white people acting as if they were superior to black people simply because of their skin color, and with white people treating black people as animals rather than human. They could have just used the zombie drug, it worked just fine. Humans in general have a tendency to segregate themselves from each other, whether it be skin color, the type of music they like to listen to, intelligence, or anything else, there is no excusable reason to force people to segregate. The Scottsboro trials challenged every known thought of black men and boys back in that time, and the impact it left was legendary.

Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. A Brief History with Documents written by David Howard-Pitney is a great history book that gives us an entry into two important American thinkers and a tumultuous part of American history. This 207-pages book was published by Bedford/St. Martin’s in Boston, New York on February 20, 2004. David Howard-Pitney worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University in 1986, and that made him a specialist on American civil religion and African-American leaders ' thought and rhetoric (208). Another publication of Howard-Pitney is The African-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America.

On February 21st, 1965, Malcolm Little, better known as Malcolm X, was assassinated in Manhattan, New York by Talmadge Hayer (also know as Thomas Hager) and two other associates (whose identities are questionable) (Breitman, 1976, 63). Talmadge Hayer and his two suspected associates, Norman Butler and Thomas Johnson, were all members of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a group that Malcolm used to be a part of until a split in 1964. Malcolm X was the top minister of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of Elijah Muhammad, and was a very well regarded member of the group. The break between Malcolm and the NOI was caused by several factors, including Malcolm discovering Elijah’s adultery with several women (X, 2015, 301) and Malcolm’s speech

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man,you take it. ”(BrainQuotes.com) Malcolm X also known previously as Malcolm Little was exposed to much violence when he was younger.

Malcolm X “You can’t separate peace from freedom, because nobody can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” These words came from the mouth of Malcolm X, but who was he? Some people call him deranged, others call him too radical. But truthfully, Malcolm X was one of the most influential African Americans in history.

"Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth"- Rosa Parks. Jim crow was a set of formal codes put into place to separate white people from colored people. These set of codes started after the end of slavery in the civil war it was a period of time that is called the reconstruction period the Jim Crow laws first started in 1877 and ended in the 1950’s with the civil rights movements. This essay about Jim Crow Laws will mainly be talking about three main points the origins of Jim Crow, what it was like to live in Jim Crow south and the different events it caused, and how it ended and the effects it still

"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason" (Abraham Heschel). American History is heavily affected by positive or negative events. Racism is one example of these events that shape our history. Racism has affected many lives in the past as well as present day. The nine kids involved in the Scottsboro trials were greatly affected by racism during their lives.