How Does Mississippi's Past Affect The Present

This riot tore this city apart. The violence was largely one-sided, with mobs of armed whites buring hundreds of black homes and beating and lynching the black residents. First off, St. Louis’ government was made of corrupt political whites that wanted to break the influence of the growing black community. At the time, St. Louis was nicknamed “ The Land of Milk and Honey” for black people( First 5). Blacks would come to St. Louis and within 24 hours, they could have a job at the factories.

Mississippi in the 1960’s was a historical and life- changing time period for the colored society. Many colored people stood up and fought for equal rights such as Martin Luther King, Jjr., Rosa Parks and Malcolm X, but that was only well known ones. As they were fighting for equal rights, the white society had other strong opinions by going against them and doing things as riots, beating the colored and even shootings. In the early 1960’s the law that established the segregation of the white and colored was called the Jim Ccrow Llaw. Even in prison they were separated where they slept, ate and had recess.

“The Shooter” The ghost of Doc Halladay is most likely known as “The Shooter”. His ghost is mostly been sighted at “The Birdcage Theatre” in Tombstone, Arizona. He was shot and killed in Tombstone in the O.K. Corral gunfight against The Clanton’s and the Macalry Gang in late 1863. He is known to have many ghosts and spirits accompanying him in the Birdcage.

Southern states defended slavery by using history:” Slavery has been legal for a long time before now, so it is a natural thing to do.” On the other hand, the main point was that slaves planting and picking cotton would heavily boost the economy. There were plenty of other reasons justifying why slavery should be legal, but these were some main points. African-American people during pre-civil war times had a harsh life. Many black people during this time just mainly worked all of their lives non-stop. Thinking back, if slavery still existed now with all of this technology it would be even more wrong than it was before.

He had exposed the truth about Mississippi, by showing people that lynching’s still happened and that there needs to be a change. Emmitt Tills murder was the beginning of the Civil Rights movement, his murder opened the eyes of the people of America and made people realize things needed to change. Although the Civil Rights movement happened very slowly, the murder of Bobo was the spark that everyone needed to take action against segregation in America. Bobos murder is the reason today there’s no such thing as “separate but equal” his murder started the movement that made everyone together and

He was eventually caught and received a death sentence. Cvltnation.com 9 The Happy Face Killer Keith Hunter Jesperson is the most twisted type of serial killer out there. Murder wasn’t enough for Jesperson; he also wanted to be infamous for his killings and left bold notes for the police and media about his crimes. These were often signed with a smiley face symbol which led to his alias as The Happy Face Killer. In a five year period between 1990 and 1995 Jesperson murdered eight women, mostly by strangulation.

While 71% of whites believe that blacks are responsible for their own misfortune, and 53% of blacks believe it also. Whites benefitted from slavery all the hard work of the slaves and still benefiting now from hard work from slaves. Its proven facts. Blacks had more of a disadvantage and with less resources are slowly evolving but yet educating themselves and their families over the years. Many people have their own opinions about slavery’s and its effect on both parties.

He planted atrocious seeds in the minds of slaves, carefully cultivated them, and over a time period the seeds grew in something disastorous. One thing that has erupted in our culture is blacks fighting amongst one another. As mentioned earlier, Willie Lynch’s goal was to get blacks to fight among themselvse for the simplest of reasons. We can definetly see this on a wide scale today. It may not be everywhere, but in many instances blacks fight over things that are irrelevant in the time we are living.

She made sure to bring the problem to light in its true form. Wells’ talks clearly of the true horror that lynching was in the south. Lynching was a horrible problem that was spreading throughout the south of the time. It was all too common and seemed to be an almost everyday occurrence where people were used to lynching taking place. For example, in A Red Record, Wells shows the records of 1894 and how 132 people were executed under United States law while 197 people were lynched and killed due to mobs without being able to defend themselves.

In the post-Civil War South, the economic situation that followed the emancipation of slaves and therefore the loss of the labor force, forced the South to find a suitable replacement for slavery. This also meant enacting laws designed to keep former slaves tied to the land. The economic system, which replaced slavery, was sharecropping. To keep the former slaves tied to the land, however, laws such as the black codes ensured a steady stream of workers to harvest the crops. Furthermore, vagrancy laws, which were designed to punish vagrants by making them harvest crop for a plantation owner, were passed.

Thinking back to the Civil Rights movement that went on for fifteen years this tragic event can be compared to that. Mike Brown is the modern day Emmitt till, the six little girls burned in the church, and Trayvon Martin combined into one. The events that happened soon after arguably changed the lives of Ferguson citizens forever. Ferguson citizens was justified in their response due to the death of Mike Brown, police brutality, and the results of the indictment. The main cause of the riots that took place in Ferguson is the fact that Mike Brown was brutally gunned down by a white police office while he was unarmed and hands up.

Cotton, was an intensive business, large numbers of workers required to grow and harvest cotton came from slave labor until the end of the Civil War. Therefore all crops were abanded and replaced by Cotton which caused damage on the soil. Cotton was dependent on slavery. Slavery was a large extent dependent on cotton. Although they worked,

WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOUND BAYOU FROM THE LATE 19th TO THE EARLY 21st CENTURY? From the very beginning African Americans have had a hard life. Though condemned to be the inferior race, the culture as a whole took on a new definition of perservation. With the skills gained from the harsh life on the fields, former slaves used what good they had to make a memorable historical factor pertaining to the southern history: Mound Bayou. From this, the lives of African Americans proved to be much stronger than what was credited for.

From 1896 up until 1995 the Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania was in constant use. Much of the history at Holmesburg’s contains instances of rioting, murder, rape and even medical experimentation. Most prisons claim some violence in their past but Holmesburg’s borders on barbaric. Maybe this strong negative energy is what keeps the ghosts of Holmesburg Prison so active. There was a hunger strike held in 1938.