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Emmett Till

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The Civil Rights Movement is a very important event that took place in the United States. Without the Civil Rights movement the United States would not be in the state that it is now. Not only would we not have had more opportunities for oppressed people, but theres is a very strong chance that we might still be in the state that the country was during that time.  Many people and events are important to this movement good and bad. Not only were there a lot of great things that happened like, the bus boycotts, lunch sit-ins, and the infamous March on Washington, there were many ugly, devastating events that took place like assassinations and the devastating murder of Emmett Till. Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who’s brutal murder sparked outrage and brought light to the brutality of the Jim Crow era.  Emmett Till was accused of harassing, touching, and threatening a white women who worked behind the counter of a convenience store. After hearing these allegations, the
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Klansville USA

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  The Ku Klux Klan was a group made up of a bunch of white Americans that started way back during the Civil War and would diminish and reform throughout history. The KKK first took form during the Civil War when decommissioned generals of the Confederate Army banded together in a group. At first, they started by dressing up as confederate soldiers come back from the dead to terrorize newly freed slaves. But, during the reconstruction era the KKK became violent.  The film, "The Birth of a Nation", was a film that glorified the KKK. This film sparked the second rise of the KKK in the 1920's. This klan was very big in unexpected places. By the 30's bad press had ripped apart the klan and silenced them once again. But not for long. During the Civil Rights movement the klan formed once again after the hearing of Brown v. The Board of Education. The KKK became very prominent in North Carolina, deeming North Carolina Klansville, due to the Grand Dragon Bob Jones. Many believ
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American Reconstruction After the Civil War

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One of the biggest events in American history is the Civil War. The Civil War started after the emancipation proclamation. Through the long years of the war, it finally came to an end when the leader of the confederate south surrendered to the Union.  In the beginning of the war black slaves started escaping and making way to the north to claim their freedom. When in the Union freed men started to join the military. Black soldiers began to change the meaning of winning the war. It meant so much more to them to show that they fought for their rights and put their lives on the line for their freedom.  After the war the first question that sprang into talk was who were citizens and what rights do they get.  The north and south saw reconstruction in two very different ways. The south saw it as the freeing of slaves but the north saw it as the beginning of change for black Americans.  Abraham Lincoln made a speech at the end of the war where he stated that "black men who are intelligen
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The March on Washington

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The Civil Rights Movement is one of the most important events not only in U.S. history but history world wide. By far the biggest single handed event in Civil Rights history is the infamous March on Washington. It all started in 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther king Jr. took the Civil Rights movement to the most racist, segregated city in America. Birmingham Alabama has a symbol of "Hardcore resistance to desegregation".   King was one of the leading voices in the Civil Rights Movement. King was so determined that he would do anything he had to in order for them to end segregation and get the rights that they deserved. King believed that they had to put their lives on the line to end segregation because even if they died they would take segregation with them.  While in Birmingham, King faced his strongest, most dreaded enemy, the Birmingham Police Chief. The police Chief tried and promised that he would do anything he had to do in order to hold onto segregation and silence the Civ
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Booker T. Washington

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One of the most important cases in Supreme Court History is  B rown v.  the Board of Education. This case ruled that U.S. State Laws that establish racial discrimination in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal. This case is a very important event in the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement is one of the most important events in U.S. history. Through this event many historical figures were brought to light and changes were made to better the lives of the oppressed citizens in America.   One of the many celebrated Civil Rights activist is Booker T. Washington.  Booker T. Washington was an African American who was born into slavery, but through his hard work and dedication he became a leading African American intellectual.  Washington had many great accomplishments in his life including many firsts for the African American people. His accomplishments include:   Founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, (now known as T
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Town Hall

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In history the abolishment of slavery was always a topic of if or when. Throughout the years there was always two sides to the story.  In my class we decided to do a mock town hall meeting to recreate how it would have been back in the day if they would talk about slavery.  The class was split into two different sides, the people for slavery, like Samual Morse, and the people against slavery, like the infamous Fredrick Douglas.  Throughout the Town Hall we would take turns arguing our views on the subject. Although we would switch between the two sides we heard many of the same arguments.  A major argument that we would hear from the people on the pro-slavery side was the argument of the economy and how it would fail if the United States were to get rid of slavery. They argues that since the south was so heavily dependent on cash crops as their form of incoming money, that is they got ready if slavery they wouldn't be able to keep up their economy because they wouldn't be able
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Mann v. North Carolina

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In my class we had to perform a Mock Trial. The case at hand that we used was the case of Mann v. North Carolina. In the actual case,  Elizabeth Jones owned a slave named Lydia and she hired her out for work to John Mann of Chowan County . Mann shot and wounded Lydia when she tried to escape a lashing. Mann was found guilty of battery  by a jury of twelve white men drawn from his town and the court (Superior Court Judge  Joseph J. Daniel ) assessed a five-dollar fine. The North Carolina Supreme Court overruled the conviction on the grounds that slaves were the absolute property of their owners who could not be punished at common law  unless the legislature authorized such punishment. Although the case already took place, our job was to argue from a certain perspective from one point of view. My group represented North Carolina. My job was to argue why the conviction shouldn't be overruled from a law perspective. This was my argument: There should be absolutely no question on whethe
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