1919 Racial Violence

The defeat caused major rioting due to Jack Johnson being African American beating a white top heavyweight champion. The riots caused by the win of Jack Jefferies had hundreds of African Americans to be brutally mistreated and seriously injured. There are records shown that there were only 11-26 people killed during this riot. And so this influenced racial tension already believed to be existing in society. Before 1919, when World War 1, ending in the late 1918s the African Americans who had risked their lives fighting for freedom, and equal rights as the whites received the rights they deserved under the law.

1920’s Racism and the Great Migration During the 1920s, racism was an ordinary experience for anyone who was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan. Ku Klux Klan reached its maximum amount of members in the beginning of the 1920s, while ruining the lives of many immigrants and black migrants. Racism was extremely distinct in the southern states and developed into violent issues and severe segregationist laws in the north and the south. The prejudice events in the south helped shape America’s Great Migration.

When they realized, the promises made to them as far as them working and their living situations improving was not happening like promised, they began moving into the white communities. Which would intelled more competition in the workforce. This outraged the whites and they reunited the Klu Klux Klan to begin violent acts towards the blacks. In 1918 there were a total of 64 lynchings and in 1919 there were a total of 83 lynchings.(www.history.com and

The four bloody years spread havoc across the U.S. over the fight for slavery. This war left a mark on the American society for as long as it stands. One of its most bloody battles, The Battle of Gettysburg, caused the death or injury of 51,000 soldiers. This battle remains in U.S. history as one of the most catastrophic battles of all time. Loiselle Brett expresses this battle as being, “ A major battle was about to begin, without the knowledge of either army's commander.”

I felt that he was the change that negroes needed to expose the treacherous laws in the South. He really showed the truth of the outrageous laws that supposedly the supported the negroes since they were now free. Although, by doing this he showed the ways of publicizing problems to the world so people can come in and try to help. If it was not for Griffin other people would not really know the truth of the negroes. With his written journal accounts at hand he teaches a valuable lesson.

His writing was very tactful because of his use of facts and citations. However, I do agree with Harding that the black movement’s efforts helped to demolish slavery. But I think that without Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, it couldn’t have been

Mass incarceration is the way that the United States has locked up millions of people over the last forty years using unnecessary and disproportionate policies. Contrary to popular belief, this is racially fueled as most of these policies saw to it that blacks and latinos be locked up for longer than their white peers and for smaller crimes. These racist roots within the system can be traced back to when the first slave ship arrived in the US. But our first major prison boom was seen after the American Civil war. I know that the Civil War was far more than forty years ago.

Lynching was something horrific that happened a lot in the 1900s in the South(mostly) but many other states as well. Lynching is a root from slavery and was a racialized violence to blacks. This is something that continues in todays world. Several authors wrote and continue to write about the terrible process of lynching; from slavery, segregation, and today's racialized violence. One reading that stood out to me was "Big Boy Leaves Home," by Richard Wright.

The Appeal pressed the opponent movement in a more fundamental direction. In 1830, when the Appeal was put out, more than fifty Negro abolitionist groups already occurred across the country. And David Walker’s call for the instant elimination of slavery vibrated strongly with many Blacks. The David Walker’s Appeal also influenced the thinking of leading white opponents who formed

Martin Luther King Jr. is known throughout the world for his leadership in the American Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s will always be remembered as an unstable period in American history. Racial tensions were at an all time high and our country, states, towns and families were torn over their views of racism. Racial barriers challenged black people everywhere and Jim Crow laws of the South denied millions of black people basic rights (Jenkins). During this time of civil unrest, numerous leaders emerged, but by far the most notable was Martin Luther King, Jr..

Black on Black violence in New Orleans Louisiana has risen exponentially ever since the devastation that was Hurricane Katrina, a problem that can be solved by the coming together of the African American community to protect each other’s back. Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans Louisiana on August 29th, 2005 and left an impact that could not properly be described by any set of words. The main problem that everyone could see was that a great city had been completely obliterated. The dilemma that was overlooked by practically everyone was that the entire city had shut down. The Mayor at the time, Mayor Ray Nagin called for a mandatory evacuation of the city for the Hurricane, but due to the history of false calls with storms that were said to

Hey Sammi, I agree with your perspective of racism. I like how you gave an example of the portrayal of police officers in other states and the shootings of African Americans. It’s unfortunate that police officers would open fire even if the person is unarmed. Your statement of how people are judged within 10 seconds of the meeting is quite accurate, because I’ve heard things from people about others from the first time they meet someone. It is nice knowing how in the Bay Area there aren 't much racial discrimination occurring, because all the cultures has came together and merged.

These videos impacted me significantly because they struck a good balance between being consistent with experiences in my own life, and subverting those observations enough that i’m able to learn. For example, the video with a group of white and black vandals initially began as I expected it to. The creation of them vs us dichotomies is a typical element of race related information I’ve consumed in the new media, as well on social media site. What I didn’t expect was the how righteous the group who called the police on the black group seemed. This self righteousness was even more pugnant do to the fact that I agree their reasoning.

Arrest data are well suited for measuring violence because they reflect violent offending/ offenders, as compared to offense data that reflect violent occurrences. The more serious offenses of homicide and robbery that are well established as measures of violent offending. (Feldmeyer 22) 　　 After conducting the proper research and gathering data as hypothesized, its found that racial/ ethic composition effects on violence are stronger and much more persistent in larger and more urbanized places. Overall racial and ethnic composition effects on violence is more robust then other small places.

This sparked my thought of how one is to overcome the fear if that is even possible. Another point that I found interesting was Coates ' view of black history. Because it was a perspective I’ve never heard before, I pondered on the idea heavily. At first, like myself, Coates took an enormous amount of pride in black history. Originally thinking that slavery showed how durable and resilient African-Americans were as a group, Coates later realized that the history he was honoring all stemmed from negative and atrocious places, which was not anything to turn into a triumphant story.