Civil Rights Then & Now by Jennifer Hartwig

Summary & Response - How have civil rights changed over the century?

HartwigEnglishClassroom — 2022-10-16 22:48:03 UTC

Share your learning from your research about civil rights and/or the history of lynchings by completing the following in your post:

Create your own unique title in the subject line, followed by your first name.
Reference and hyperlink the text you read by identifying the TAG ("Title," Author, Genre) and the date of publication. (e.g. In the article entitled “Remember to Capitalize Your Title” by FirstName LastName on Date,… or According to “Remember to Capitalize Your Title” by FirstName LastName on Date, ...)
Compose a summary ¶ of each text in order to share the main points about your topic with your readers.
Then compose your response ¶ (your analytical commentary) by explaining the conversation you had with your text (the thought journey you went on) during your reading. This should include connections you made between what you have learned about the Civil Rights Era of the mid-1900s and what is going on today.

Summary & Response - Student Example

HartwigEnglishClassroom — 2022-10-16 23:12:50 UTC

History of Lynching -Student First Name Only

In the article titled, “Vile US History of Lynching of People of Color,” written by Russel Contreras on June 15, 2020, it discusses the history of lynching in America. In the article it discusses how lynching started with native Americans and black slaves. When white people first came to the country, people of all races were lynched. Towards the 1800’s it became specifically racist and black people and Mexican Americans were treated horribly. They were lynched and burned with their killers having no criminal punishment.

This article has helped me understand how horrible black people were treated during this time in America. In fact, as I read, I learned there was much more to a lynching than "just" a hanging. It also included physical torment and brutal torture. They even made postcards of many lynching photos with racist poems on them. Through all of this, the biggest connection I made with this article is that we white people in America, especially during our current time period, have experienced a privileged life, unlike black people. Because of this, I believe schools need to go further in depth on this topic because this is something generations ahead need to learn so we do not repeat it.

Summary & Response Student Example

HartwigEnglishClassroom — 2022-10-16 23:22:23 UTC

Discrimination Still Exists - Student First Name Only

I read an article entitled "PBS Civil Rights Today," by Alan Jenkins, which was from an interview by Maria Daniels, WGBH Boston, July 2006. From this article, I learned that black communities are still discriminated against to this day. Black communities were purposefully made to be farther away from good jobs, schools, hospitals, and the hardest to get out in case of emergency. When major life events happen, they often are the last to get help. For instance, Hurricane Katrina ruined these communities more than white communities.

I think this is extremely unfair. This makes me think of other news events I have heard about where communities made of mostly POC don't get the financial support they need to have things like normal, safe daily utilities, but communities that are mostly white get their utilities fixed right away. I think that these communities should be as good as the white communities that get access to all of the things they need. And laws should change to help this happen.

Current Civil Right Inequalities- Stella Largent

2023-10-20 14:12:02 UTC

According to “PBS civil rights today” by Alan Jenkins there is still a lot of discrimination that exists today. This article was an interview by Maria Daniels in WGBH Boston ,July 2006. This article talked a lot about how today lots of black communities are in the most vulnerable places. Not just this but Black communities were also purposely made to be the farthest away from good jobs, schools, hospitals, and are the hardest places to get out of in case of emergencies. An example of this is how during Hurricane Katrina these communities were the ones that got hit the hardest of all of them.

This is all extremely unfair to these people and communities. There are some modern civil right movements that are trying to change this and expand opportunity so nothing like what happened during Hurricane Katrina happens again. Although these issues are not always seen they are still very important and have a big impact on our community. There has been a lot of progress made over this subject but there is still a long way to go to make it how it should be.

Civil Rights Today By Colt

2023-10-20 14:19:56 UTC

I read the article Named "PBS Civil Rights Today" By Jenkins, Alan. Interview by Maria Daniels, WGBH Boston, July 2006. It was about how there are still people working for civil rights today. Alan Jenkins says that when there is a natural disaster or something that the government does not care about the lower-income areas and only cares for the higher-class people. He also talks just not only about blacks but also about Latinos and other immigrants.

He also states that civil rights are just not a thing in the United States. He had traveled over to India and other countries over there and heard them singing the same song that MLK sang. He asked them why they were singing those songs and they said that they were looking for equal rights too. So that means that the civil rights movement has moved from the us to all over the world. So that means that there are more people that are being discriminated against than some people may think.

Civil Rights Today- Brooklyn

2023-10-20 14:27:51 UTC

According to “PBS Civil Rights Today," by Alan Jenkins, an interview by Maria Daniels, WGBH Boston, July 2006, there is still lots of discrimination in our society today. The government isn’t considering black communities in emergency situations. For example, when Hurricane Katrina hit, the places it ruined the most, were black neighborhoods. These neighborhoods were the poorest, farthest away from good jobs and schools, and most vulnerable to flooding and destruction. This shows that the government doesn’t care about these neighborhoods and purposely made them vulnerable.

“Opportunity in America should mean everyone has a fair chance to achieve his or her full potential. Our country hasn't yet fulfilled that promise.” The modern civil rights movement focuses on expanding opportunity, but it’s difficult to find opportunity in an unequal society. There are some things that we can do to improve our own community such as promising ourselves to live up to the opportunities in our own lives and reaching out to important speakers to evaluate and spread awareness about the situation. “We've made a huge amount of progress but we still have a long way to go.” Now is a good time for America to reinvest in the struggle for overcoming inequality and discrimination.

History of the KKK - Bristol

2023-10-20 14:35:28 UTC

I read an article called "America's Most Infamous Hate Group: The KKK." When I was reading the article I felt disgusted about the way black people were treated. The KKK were trying to prevent the blacks from doing literally everything. They wouldn't let the black people and even Republicans vote. That's because they wanted to keep the white Democrat rule in the Southern states. To help prevent the blacks and Republicans from voting, they violently intimidated voters on their way to the polls during election season.
Another article I read was called "https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/exhibits/show/kkk-methods/victims-of-violence/black-victims-of-violence ." In this article, it talks about how many black people were beaten and killed. For example, in Wayne county on August 2, 1866, four white men brutally a free man named Barry Lewes, a discharged solider. On February 18, 1867 in Wake county, a white man assaulted a black man, but didn't have any charges pressed against him. There was one case in Sanford county on April 26, 1867, unknown parties of white men murdered a black man named John Washington and his daughter. The white group was never found or prosecuted. Lastly, in Wake county later in the same year, six white men murdered a black man. Finally, the group was arrested and got sent to jail. Most of the white men were never caught, they were most likely to be in the KKK, wearing disguises to keep from being identified.
Things kept getting worse and worse. They members of the KKK group would go after black women as well. They would both assault and rape black women. For example, a disguised group had assaulted a freed woman named Frances Gilmore. They assaulted her by whipping and beating her, took of her clothes to be whipped by a board, and cut multiple times with a knife. No one was able to identify her attackers due to their disguises, and yet again, no arrests were made. The Klans use of sexualized violence of men and women show their willingness to assert their social authority over blacks, by any means necessary.

Modern Civil Rights Issues Mariella Hernandez

2023-10-20 14:48:37 UTC

I read the article, “Black Lives Matter: The 21st Century Civil Rights Movement?”. by Meghan Gallagher, member of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, October 12, 2018. This article focused on the disparities in police brutality black people face and gave a brief history of the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as providing a comparison between white and black incarceration rates. I learned that black people face a lot of racial injustice in the criminal justice system. I also learned that the Black Lives Matter movement started in 2013 when Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teen was fatally shot by police officer George Zimmerman.

It surprised me how many instances of racism, violence, and brutality are committed against black people. I connected this injustice in the government with others, like how minorities often have a lower credit score because of lending policies that favored white borrowers and the fewer financial services minorities often have access to. It made me wonder how there are so many blatantly racist people in important positions, and what the black community would look like today if they were treated equally from the very beginning. That train of thought reminded me of this quote from Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History, “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”.

Civil Rights Impact Today- By Rylee Robson

2023-10-20 16:08:15 UTC

When reading “ PBS Civil Rights Today,” by Jenkins, Alan interviewed Maria Daniels, WGBH Boston, July 2006, he told the audience about how much progress we’ve made but how much progress we still need to make for inequality in our society. Many civil rights movements are working to address and improve inequalities in our communities. These movements of the African-Americans have also helped other groups of people look for justice among their countries, so the effect of civil rights back them and today is impacting our whole world by helping people stand up for their rights/life. Then civil rights today are impacting our communities as well and we need to work on improving them as well. Alan Jenkins says, “That means treating each other fairly and trying to examine our own biases.” He also states that, “But we all have an opportunity to step outside of them and make sure we're treating people the way we want to be treated.” This shows that if we look at all races the same and step aside from our own biases that we will improve upon racial judgements and make our society better. So by working better our society will be happier and ready for more opportunities. There are still areas where we have made great progress but there are still areas that are waiting for great improvements. So now maybe more than ever it is important for Americans to reassess the struggle for inequality and improve upon it.
When reading the article it brought me more to my attention about what happens and that we need to be more aware of what people with inequality go through. I agree with the author because I believe that all people should be treated equally and that if we all work together we can overcome the problems facing us, inequality and racism. I have seen people who are of a different race be made fun of and I think that it is not fair and should not be happening. I was surprised when reading about hurricane Katrina and how it was proved to be modern racism. Even though it was little it still was inequality and whites over blacks. This article has sparked my mind for more questions, like when do they think it will be fully resolved?, Will it ever be fully resolved?, or What would be the most effective method to help inequality?. All of these questions have started in my mind from reading the text. I decided to read this article in general because it is a trustworthy source and looked interesting. The text when you read it was very formal and provided good information about real life and accurate issues of today. So overall I enjoyed reading the article because it sparked my mind and was interesting to me.

Why we're still fighting- Blakely Buttler

2023-10-20 18:33:35 UTC

In the article "Civil Rights Today" by Alan Jenkins on July 2006, I was curious to find out that many people are still experiencing racism in school today. The article stated that black children were treater differently at school, specifically because of their race, by both students and teachers. This is one of the reasons that in the past, black children and young adults have had less access to a better education, such as getting in to colleges. This article also said that the civil rights groups today have been protesting and fighting for better education for black students, and that they have been able to increase the amount of black women that attend college.

I think that school should be a place where all children, no matter their race, religion, background, or anything at all, should receive a quality and equal education. This article reminds me of the riots in 2020 that I saw on the news. The violence and bloodshed, all just to get human equality, something that shouldn't have to be fought for. I believe that students should be able to go to school without worrying about bullying, especially about something as serious as race. Schools should start taking this seriously, and make a change.

History of lynching-Cole

2023-10-20 19:09:58 UTC

In the article titled An American Lynching I could hear the screams written by Jaclynn Ashly On Oct 20,2020. This article talks about all of the history of lynchings and what happened during them. Lynchings are an act of collective violence like that inflicted upon thousands of African Americans throughout US history. The EJI has done research and found that 4,084 “racial terror” lynchings in 12 Southern states between 1877 and 1950, and at least 300 lynchings in other states during the same period.

This article helped me understand how bad these lynchings actually were and how bad the people were treated. Before I read this article I thought that lynchings were just killing people but I found out that they burned down their houses and they even kidnapped black people from jail because they thought that jails were too nice for them to live in. They even killed the black people for protesting against slavery and how they were treated. This article has helped me understand lynchings and how bad they were a lot.

Lynching History, & NAACP Starting. By Mackenzie Erickson, 10/20/23.

2023-10-20 19:10:43 UTC

What does Lynching mean? Lynching means a public murder that happened with most people that “did wrong”. Some lynching was for no reason at all, except for racism. Lynching was a proccess used by white people to terrioize the black people, to show that white people are dominate to the race and black people feel as they do not belong. Lynching seemed to be people hanged, tortured, burned, beat up, etc. And it would feel terrible, like the pain was eternal until you die. How they got the blacks to be lynched, there needed to be a reason. So the whites made false reasons to the blacks to tell the officers so the blacks can get lynched. Though that was how people did it in back in the day, people were killed in public places of humiliation.

Lynching started in the 19th century up to the 20th, during the Civil Rights Era. Many people were killed in those years, as it was a full on “war” of blacks vs. rights basically. In different states, in the past, there were different murders for different states. It was hard to count how many deaths, as not all were reported. But there was an estimate of 4,743.

The lynching was big on most black people, and the people in the U.S. at that time, probably around 50-75% estimated were lynched. There was whites that felt bad for the blacks so they did help, but also got lynched. So not all of them were actually black.

During a Great Migration, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) came as a helping hand to defeat Lynching. So there was more of a battle of whites vs. blacks, except it was remove lynching vs. lynching. But like illnesses as the cure is only going away on its own, there is little lynching further in the past. From NAACP sending messages to make lynching illegal, it started to work. Now today, just a little lynching. As it's more of murdering with guns, or beaten. Of course they’ll go to jail, but from the laws, it's a terrible crime now. People just have to accept the blacks are also humans like whites.

Speaking of accepting, there was a person in 1918 named Walter White, a mix of black and white. From his looks he identified as a white, but he was known as black. He was able to talk to blacks freely, without causing much trouble. The mix of him made it easy for him to investigate lynchings. Finding a way to solve them, and prevent them.

The investigations Walter White sought, was of Mary Turner and Jesse Mcllherron. Mary Turner had her husband dead from the frame of possible murder, and Mary spoke against the whites. Resulting her in a Lynch, same to her baby. Jesse Mcllherron was an armed man that was fighting Whites, and known to be fearful to Officers. Though he was caught and lynched.

The lynching ended in the 1960’s or so, but is still rarely continued as a different way. My source is: https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america (Just copy an paste it or type it in a search bar to get it), A website from NAACP that explains the history of lynching. A clear understanding as it was made by NAACP.

My opinion on all of this is that the source I got it from, is a perfect clear understanding of what Lynching means and the history of it because it talks about the history and the company was there when it started. As Lynching can still happen today, as a form of just murder, it is a huge crime. The thought I found confusing was, with Mary Turner and Jesse Mcllherron, they seemed to stay alive longer than others it seemed like, and I just wonder why?

The Lynching also reminds me of Prometheus, how the bird came back everday to eat at him, and his body would regrow each time to suffer everyday. Except he is inmortal, but the Lynch reminds me of that. History keeps repeating itself, it is like a quote from everywhere. Said by some, or maybe just me.

I do feel sorry for the people who got lynched, as they gotten blamed and humiliated while in pain infront of the citizens. The thing I don’t get is also, why couldn’t the past whites just see if the people bleed as they do? And that they have the same flesh? Someday in the future, whites on earth will become black because someday the sun will come closer and closer to the earth. As it’ll be like a dessert. The sun can change a person's color, as a white person can become tan or black, well in my theory anyway. Though the blacks are nothing new, whenever America was “founded” Native Americans pondered about the black who was with Christophor Columbus, and I believe also there were slaves back in the day. Of course the slaves were none more, but then later in time people treated the blacks as like they were aliens. From a different world. They should be brought to death, the blacks have been in the world since, forever probably. So why treat them as rust in the past, well, the whites in the past just were monkeys that couldn’t solve a problem the right way of peace.

The History of Lynching - Nathan

2023-10-20 19:13:54 UTC

In the article entitled “History of Lynching in America” by the NAACP, in 2023. From this article I learned that lynching was bad for the black people and it was cruel for them and did not deserve that kind of disrespect. They were often carried out by lawless mobs, and were violent acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, mostly in the South. They mostly evoke images of black men and women hanging.

I think this was unfair to the black people, and the white people were rude and disrespectful to the black people. Everyone should be treated equally. know one should superior over the other. Equally.

The Vile History Of Lynchings in America

2023-10-20 19:14:05 UTC

The article titled "HISTORY OF LYNCHING IN AMERICA" by the NAACP is an informative article about the lynchings that happened in America. From this reading, I learned about how lynchings were started, how long they lasted, and how different acts of violence could be seen as modern-day lynchings. I also learned that the highest number of lynchings during that time period occurred in Mississippi, with 581 lynchings officially recorded. Within the past 30 years, different black people have been brutalized. These modern-day lynchings are a lot less widespread but they are still happening in 2023.

I believe that this is extremely unfair and that these lynchings go against the United States Constitution. I was shocked to learn that in 1998, a black man was chained to a car by three white people and he was dragged to his death in Texas. This happened 25 years ago, which is still really relevant to our time. Another shocking thing that I learned was that in 2020, a man by the name of Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot while jogging in Georgia. This article makes me wonder if lynching fully went away, or if they just evolved to different forms. A personal experience that I've seen of hatred towards black people is in the comments of posts online. I've lost track of the number of different comments I have seen that discriminate against black people. I firmly believe that any form of abuse towards people should not be happening, especially if the only reason why someone does it is because of the color of someone's skin color.

History of Lynchings- Nora

2023-10-20 19:23:38 UTC

I read an article called "The History of Lynchings in America" that was written by the NAACP in 2023, it discusses lynchings in America during the 1880's through the 1960's. Lynchings were a very common activity in 1882 to 1968. There was a lot of racial injustices in that time frame and lynching was one of the most popular. Lynchings is the public killing of a person that hasn’t had any legal decision for their crime. They were most often hangings but they could also be mutilation, decapitation, or burnings. From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S. And 72% of people that were lynched were black. Other records vary because there were no official records of the lynchings. First in number of lynchings was Mississippi, with 581 recorded. Georgia was second with 531, and Texas was third with 493. However lynchings did not occur in every state. Most of the time the lynchings were based on false accounts and were just an excuse for the black people to be harmed.

During the 1930’s to the 60’s there was a mass move called the Great Migration which was a way to get away from the lynchings. People also boycotted white owned stores and businesses. The NAACP formed during the time of the Great Migration to fight for racial justice. The lynchings started to decline in the 1930’s because of the efforts to stop them and the Great Depression. Even though there wasn’t as many lynching going into the 1960’s but there was still a lot of anger and violence toward black people. There are still common day lynchings like the George Flyod and James Byrd cases. Even though the lynching have become less common there are still racial injustices and inequalities in our day to day life.

Lynching: The long and Painful History behind it

2023-10-20 19:36:14 UTC

In the article I read titled "Lynching" by Dennis Downey in 2014 informed me that Lynching is the act of killing victims by mobbing them, hanging them, or lighting them on fire. Lynching used to mean whipping - like what was done to slaves - but began to be a way of killing in the civil war. Lynching happens everywhere and used to include everyone - no matter what their skin color was. However, lynching most commonly in the United States during the civil war era. 80% of all of these lynchings were done in the south towards the African-Americans. Most of the lynchings were done by the KKK - the Klu Klux Klan and they did not face any criminal punishment for their crimes.

This article taught me all about lynchings. It taught me what lynchings were and just how horrible they truly were. I had a hard time reading about lynchings due to how graphic all of them are. It is so cruel to light people on fire as a way of killing them - especially just because of the color of their skin. This truly shows how black people were treated in the 1800s and it is horrible to have this be in our nations country. Looking back, this was a horrible thing to have happened, but forgetting about this would not honor the victims. it is important to learn about this so that we do not repeat this in the future.

Lynching, Americas Shameful History-Preston

2023-10-20 20:20:19 UTC

In the article titled, “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror” written by Equal Justice Initiative, in 2017, it relays the research done by Equal Justice Initiative (Or EJI for short). In the study EJI researched look at no only why Lynching was bad but also the effects it had on our life today. Some effects were mass discomfort with talking about how we felt about these terrible actions which left the U.S in denial about our radical history. The article then goes state that because there was no monument or memorial for the thousands of African-Americans who were lynched, this shows as a country how we have not shown value to African-Americans . As well as reinforcing the the story of difference in race making a difference in our daily lives which is continuing to show up in our courts as problems.

This article reinforce my beliefs that we need to address social issues rather than push them to the side until they come up again. But I am curious on the research they did to find these results and maybe they would have changed after the events of BLM. I think the most interesting elements of this article was it talking about the effects it has on todays everyday lives. Something I discovered about about lynching was that there is no memorial or anything for those lynching victims.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964-Lilah

2023-10-20 20:31:49 UTC

We know that the civil rights movement is one of the most popular movements to date. But what makes it so popular? Is it because of the long process it took to give African Americans the same rights as whites? Is it all the abuse that the African Americans had to endure during the long painful process of being accepted? Or maybe it is just simply because of the “I Have a Dream Speech” by Martin Luther King JR.

I read an article called "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom," by the Library of Congress which was recently updated in 2016. This article tells of the good and the bad of the Civil Rights Movement. It goes through the struggles of the African Americans while waiting for their rights to be the same rights as the white man. We will hear a little bit about how the Civil Rights Movement affected Ruby Sales.

From this article I learned that the Civil Rights Act hastened the end of the legal Jim Crow. The Jim Crow law made it hard for African Americans to eat at restaurants, go to school, or be allowed in any other public facilities owned by the white man. I find this completely unfair and I think that they deserved better than what they got.

Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, and how when he returned home he was still fighting, his family was fighting. The whole African American population was fighting. She tells her story about Jonathan Daniels, a civil rights activist who died saving Ruby Sales. Sales also recalls her time in jail and how she finds that it is still ridiculous that there are still more African Americans in jail.

The Government is the Key to Ending Discrimination - Ryan

2023-10-21 19:14:45 UTC

I read two articles and in the first one "Civil Rights Movement," by History made in October 2023. I learned more about the Jim Crow Laws and how they made it to where black people couldn't go to the same school, live in the same towns, or use the same facilities. In the second article "Civil Rights Today," by WGBH Educational Foundation in 2023. It talks about making living better for black people because when Hurricane Katrina hit it was hard for black people to get out of there towns due to them being the hardest to get out of and being the most vulnerable to flooding. They are trying to get the government to start taking action instead of overlooking them like they don't need help.

When I read these read these two articles it didn't see like much had changed since then. The only thing that had changed since then was the lynchings and those don't happen anymore. The things that stayed the same however was the government overlooking the lives of black people and their living conditions. The black people are still being discriminated from the white people from the neighborhoods that they live in. White people live in nice neighborhoods that get things done when they need it and if there is an emergency they can get there quickly and easily. While black people don't get those luxuries and have to live in neighborhoods that aren't great so they have a harder time getting to the places they need and getting a good job that will keep them on their feet. I think that this is wrong because of what the government isn't doing to help they just overlook these places and worry more about white places. if there is going to be a change the government has to make whether they pass laws or they figure out another way to make everybody's lives equal.

Civil Rights Then & Now-Austin

2023-10-21 20:21:27 UTC

Back then the civil rights movement was made to stop the whole slavery thing and give the African-Americans an equal amount of ability to be people The civil rights act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 made laws aimed to eradicate discriminatory practices and ensure equal protection under the law for all citizens. NOW: the central focus is still people of different races, we also focus on the LGBTQ+ people, transgender folk, and the immigrant rights are the other parts of current civil rights activism. social media also gave awereness to the whole racist things with the #blacklivesmatter and the #metoo movements. we have widespread things so everyone knows and (hopefully) advocate for equal rights and justice for all!
after i read a civil rights article from a civil rights 101 thing I honestly found a TON of stuff from what even is a civil right to what we do nowadays!

Lynchings Meranda Gruber

2023-10-23 02:40:16 UTC

I read an article titled "Lynching" by Digital History which was a whole long paper all about lynchings. In this paper I learned lynchings didn't just happen in the south they happen in the north too. Between 1882 and 1930 there were around 2,828 people lynched in the south, 585 in the west and 260 in the midwest. A majority of the lynchings were in the south. There was a lot of cruel people then. There still are but is they lynched someone they would be punished unlike the people back then. The would be people coming from all over just to watch the lynching of different raced people. Another thing I found interesting was that they weren't just black people that got lynched there were Italian, Chinese or even Jewish people. There were tickets cold to lynchings crowds of about 15,000 would come to watch. Some people believe that the number of lynchings went up by a lot because of the souths cotton economy going downhill.

This made me look at the past in a whole different view. I knew that there were beatings to the blacks that didn't behave correctly but to be hung started on fire then to have your womb cut open and you and your baby to be left there to suffer is put plain awful and disgusting. Some people believe that there was a lynching recently on the news. The George Floyd incident could be considered a lynching because he was pinned on the ground with a knee to his throat for some 3 minutes.

Jameson pfrang

2023-10-23 13:47:41 UTC

The history of lynching. A lynching is the public killing of someone who has not received any due process. These kills were often carried out by lawless mobs like the kkk, though police officers did participate. Lynchings were violent public acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, usally in the South. Lynchings typically evoke images of Black men and women hanging from trees, but they involved other extreme brutality, such as torture, mutilation, decapitation, and desecration. Some victims were burned alive. One thing that I learned about was that they had killed a 9 month pregnant woman by burning her, and cutting out her baby then stomping on it. A lynching involved a criminal accusation, an arrest, and the assembly of a mob, followed by seizure, physical torment, and murder of the victim. Lynchings were often public spectacles attended by the white community in celebration of white supremacy. Photos of lynchings were often sold as souvenir postcards. The 1891 New Orleans lynchings was one of the biggest lynchings ever there were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and Italian immigrants in New Orleans by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. It was the largest single mass lynching in American history. doing this protect has taught me lots about the history of lynching, in fact before this I didnt even know what lynching was. I got most of my information from:

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america

Civil Rights Today- Karlynn

2023-10-23 13:57:26 UTC

I read the article “PBS Civil Rights Today,” by Alan Jenkins. This article was from an interview he did with Maria Daniels from WGBH Boston in July of 2006. In this article I learnt that there are people working towards making equality a reality, but we all have a long way to go to get there. He uses Hurricane Katrina as an example of inequality. The neighborhoods where most of the African Americans lived were in a harder to reach place than the other neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods were the first to flood and the first to be swallowed up in the storm.

I think that this was very unfair to those neighborhoods. They should be the same distance from hospitals and jobs as everyone else. It just proves some of the ineqialities that we have nowdays. Although many countries are getting better at being equal, we are far from being truly equal.

Jonny Kading

2023-10-23 14:11:31 UTC

In the article History of Lynching in America published in 2023 by NAACP I learned that a lynching is the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. Lynchings were violent public acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries. From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S very often. Black people were the primary victims of lynching with around 3,446, or about 72 percent of the people lynched, were Black. But they weren't the only victims of lynching. Some white people were lynched for helping Black people or for being anti-lynching. Immigrants from Mexico, China, Australia, and other countries were also lynched. Hundreds of Black people were lynched based on accusations of other crimes, including murder, arson, robbery, and vagrancy. They could get lynched because of false accusations too according too.

This article helped me understand the unfair and harsh treatments of blacks during this time of America. I also learned what a lynching was and how bad they were. I thought it was just killing blacks and didn't realize it included public execution and torture. After reading this I realize how privileged whites were compared to blacks. It helped me realize that we should continue to teach kids about this and bring awareness to the topic so it doesn't happen again or lead to a different hate crime.

Summary & Response

2023-10-23 16:48:44 UTC

Racial and Women Discrimination- Ilana
I read "Forbes Why Racism Should Be Seen As A Global Issue" an article created by Maia Niguel Hoskins, explaining the discrimination still happening today. Maria stated that “...Ukraine was another sobering reminder about why racism must be addressed as a global issue and not only a domestic concern.” (Last sentence of ¶ 1) I learned about the sexism and racism going on throughout Ukraine today. There have been multiple videos of African Americans being treated very poorly along with women being excluded from many situations. I learned that most people are not shocked by the treatment of these two groups because sexism and racism have been a global problem for forever. Especially in Ukraine many people there are not respectful to non Ukrainians.
I think that this problem is extremely horrible and a huge downside to our society. The amount of hatred that is pointed towards these groups is not decreasing. As a country we have always talked about how we will never look back to women's lack of rights or segregation but if you look at it, we have not gotten much better. All though these people have more rights they are still treated differently. They are all humans and they should be treated equally.

Civil Right Issues Today - Natalie

2023-10-23 17:57:09 UTC

In the article, “Racial Justice” from Amnesty International, I read that the international law, “racial discrimination” is known as, “any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.” One other thing is the privileges that white people have or had. For example, the access they have to healthcare and education. I found it interesting how the author talked about this because it’s not talked about much.

Around the world, the police system is ruined by racial discriminatory practices. Black people, as well as Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and other racially marginalized communities are all affected by these offensive practices. They have been put through racial profiling, unlawful arrests, cruel, and inhumane treatment. And for no reason they experience identity checks, arrests, and many many offenses. In the 17th century, African Americans were enslaved. Many were shipped across the Atlantic, and kidnapped. Slavery increased wealth and opportunities for many white people.

I think that this should not be going on today, and it’s unfair to many people. I was shocked to read that it’s still such a big problem today because it was so long ago. Racial discrimination was back in the 17th century and shouldn’t be happening. I agree with the fact that everyone should be treated equally, and not by their race. Race does not define who someone is. Police brutality towards someone of a different race is also a problem when it shouldn’t be. I believe that people should stand up to these issues, and try to make a change. This Civil Right issue has the potential to no longer be a problem. These articles have helped me understand why we should figure out a way to stop racial discrimination, and why we should still recognize it today.

Have immigrants been treated the same as everyone else? Civil Rights Today. By: Liv

2023-10-23 18:00:43 UTC

I read an article called "Understanding the Immigration Process," by Shannon Schumacher, September 17, 2023. Through this article, I learned that all immigrates should have the right to freedom of speech, their right to be treated fairly, the right to privacy, the basic rights to be U.S. citizens today. But have they really been treated that way? Many of the immigrants can't afford basic needs such as food and home. 38% of blacks/immigrates have been treated badly by the police. People have been saying bad thins to the immigrants that come. For example they say "go back to your country" making them not feel safe. Even though America is supposed to be free. Some people have been insulted for speaking another language. Immigrants have said that they don't want to talk to the police because they don't want to bring their family/social status into it. The English language is hard to understand and people who don't know how to speak it have it difficult to communicate. People who don't understand English are more likely to report discrimination than people who do understand it.

I agree with Shannon Schumacher on how Immigrants should have the same rights as people born in the U.S. After reading this article made me think: why are people treating them different? What did they do? The U.S. has a general law of making everyone free and have the same rights no matter who they are. Because of this article, I would like to continue to read more about the civil rights today and what everyone is doing to the immigrants. I didn't realize how people are treating the immigrants today. They need to put in laws discontinue this situation.

History of Lynchings By:Cadence Petersen

2023-10-30 17:23:19 UTC

I read an article entitled "History of Lynching in America," by the NAACP which is an informative text created in 2023. This article taught me what lynchings are and how they were back then. Lynching was the act of killing someone publicly for the entertainment of people, but also a part of segregation. It was usually done by mobs of people and sometimes police were even involved. Most of the time they hung them but sometimes they would use other torture forms, such as burning their victim alive. Most of the lynchings included criminal accusation, arrest, torture, and then the murder of one. The white people in the 19th and 20th centuries used these lynchings as a way to control black people and it was most common in the south, and according to the NAACP there were a total of 4,743 lynchings across the country. The white people would use horrible criminal acts, that most times were false or didn’t even happen, to justify the lynching of their victim, so they had a reason to go through with the lynching.

Tripp - Lyinching

2024-01-08 18:29:12 UTC

I read "Lynching: mob violence" about the lynchings and the main reasons on why they accord.

Summary ¶ - The lynchings here mostly caused by the whites feeling superior than the blacks, along with the feelings they had for the blacks becoming independent and fighting against segregation.

Response ¶ - This was surprising to me because of the fact that the whites viewed as property and a source of income and when they became independent it really angered people.

Source material - "Lynching: mob violence" written by Geoffrey Abbott

Lynching, a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation. The term lynch law refers to a self-constituted court that imposes sentence on a person without due process of law. Both terms are derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736–96), a Virginia planter and justice of the peace who, during the American Revolution, headed an irregular court formed to punish loyalists.

Historically, the fehmic courts of medieval Germany imposed some punishments that involved lynching, as did the Halifax gibbet law (execution of those guilty of theft valued over a specific amount) and Cowper justice (trial after execution) in the border districts of England. Resembling these cases were the Santa Hermandad constabulary in medieval Spain and pogroms directed against Jews in Russia and Poland, although in these cases there was support from legally constituted authorities.

lynching: Rubin Stacy

The body of Rubin Stacy hanging from a tree in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 19, 1935. He was lynched by a mob for allegedly attacking a white woman.(more)

Vigilante justice has been practiced in many countries under unsettled conditions whenever informally organized groups have attempted to supplement or replace legal procedure or to fill the void where institutional justice did not yet exist. Such conditions commonly give rise to acts of genocide. Statistics of reported lynching in the United States indicate that, between 1882 and 1951, 4,730 persons were lynched, of whom 1,293 were white and 3,437 were black. Lynching continued to be associated with U.S. racial unrest during the 1950s and ’60s, when civil rights workers and advocates were threatened and in some cases killed by mobs.

Civil Rights Today By John Morrill

2024-01-08 18:36:26 UTC

I read a article by Alan Jenkins

Which was about what the state of civil and human rights today?

Then it talked Addressing Inequities Today which is the modern civil rights movement, it's working to address the less visible but very important inequities in our society. Opportunity in America should mean everyone has a fair chance to achieve his or her full potential.

The modern civil rights movement focuses on expanding opportunity so that kind of thing doesn't happen again. It's important to determine what's different now compared to the Eyes era.

Summary ¶ I was instantly hooked by this because it talked about how the civil rights are today and how it was long ago.

My response is that the civil rights today is a lot better then it was years ago and i think that the civil rights would continue to grow better.

responce by dameon

2024-01-08 18:39:16 UTC

im proving the lives and rights of the lgbtq. my response it's bad for LGBTQ for them fighting for their right to love the people they like. To reverse some of the most egregious and far-reaching harms perpetrated by the Trump administration, there are a number of overarching, multiagency actions that the Biden administration should execute to provide meaningful protections for LGBTQ people. But they are the way they are so they have the best way to have the best chance to live their best lives.

my resouse to the problem for the LGBTQ people are they are having a hard time to get the ability to do the things they want and have the protection they need from the people that don't like LGBTQ poeple so they have the best for them.

Civil Rights Ty Ganzer

2024-01-08 18:39:17 UTC

I read a web paige cite called "The Cilvil Rights Movement" it talks about the movement for equal rights. It talks about main points that happened to the African Americans. Like how Rosa parks sat in the front of the bus And was arrested because she refused to give her seat to a white woman. It also talks about the little rock integrigation crisis which was how 9 black students tried to attend a school in Little Rock, Arkansas then the govenor order National Guards to surround the building and harras black students and prevent them from entering the building. I was suprised they did this to people because of their color a lot of the things they did were bad and hard to think about. This article helps me understand how bad racism was back then.

Everyone needs far rights, Colton

2024-01-08 18:39:19 UTC

I read an article entitled civil rights movement by the history newspaper. The civil rights in the 50s and 60s was a big part of what every human being wanting to get equal rights like fair jobs and bathroom rights. This was big with the black and whites where they had a bathroom for whites and a bathroom for blacks. During this time there were lots of fights breaking out and there was also lots of killing going on. For example right before the 1968 president voting there was about 2,000 killed or injured black people because white people which at the time were in the KKK didn't want black people voting in the election This fighting span lasted for about 2 decades. Then eventually the black people gained equal rights. in the late 60s. The presidents were passing laws for the equal rights like the first one when he signed the first equal right law in 1957. I was instantly hocked to this writing because it had lots of different information in the article which gave me enough information to let me write this summary.

Lynching by Brody Beeler

2024-01-11 17:49:02 UTC

Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate people. It can also be an extreme form of informal group social control, and it is often conducted with the display of a public spectacle (often in the form of a hanging) for maximum intimidation. Instances of lynchings and similar mob violence can be found in every society. My response to this is that lynching is a terrible punishment and should never had been used.

Lynching in America Lilly

2024-01-11 18:03:56 UTC

I read the article "Lynching in America", The author says that in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana and many more states, EJI researchers documented 4075 racial terror lynchings of African Americans between 1877 and 1950. In 2017 researchers documented racial terror lynchings in other states. They found that the acts of violence was was most common in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. People who participated in lynching were celebrated.

I was surprised that lynching was happening in these states. This article makes me wonder what would have happened if lynching did not happen, because if whites and blacks were treated the same, then lynching would not have happened. I think that what was happening back then is unfair, because if like what i said before, lynching would not have happened.

Emma

2024-01-11 18:18:49 UTC

The article will be about lynching. Lynching was a public act to scare blacks, and it made it were whites could control them. From 1882 to 1968 and there was over 4,500 deaths from lynching, but there could be more because there was no formal document of this. Mobs of white people would normally use criminal accusations to do lynchings. You may think that this is a terrible crime, but lynchings still happen today.

I feel that lynching should not have ever been a thing. I feel this way because lynching killed many people, and most did not deserve it. Lynching is a particularly heinous crime because they just left black people hanging in trees and killed them basically for sport. Learning about this makes me see the past in a different way. In 2020 Ahmaud Arbery was shot while jogging, but the three white people who did this said he was trespassing, that would be considered a lynching. Lynching should not be happening today and should be left in the past.

History of Lynching by:Carter Railsback

2024-01-11 18:36:20 UTC

I read an article about "lynching" Lynchings were violent public acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the South. Lynchings typically evoke images of Black men and women hanging from trees, but they involved other extreme brutality, such as torture, mutilation, decapitation, and desecration. Some victims were burned alive.

Civil Rights Today Calleigh Wolfe

2024-01-11 20:13:44 UTC

I read an article that was entitled "PBS Civil Rights Today," by Alan Jenkins. This article was an interview. The interview by Maria Daniels, WGBH Boston, July 2006. In this article, you can learn a lot of information, like working towards making equality a reality. There were movements of African-Americans who had to help other groups of people looking for justice in the countries. There was a lot of effect of civil rights back then and a lot today that is impacting us right now by helping the people that stand up for their rights and their lives. The communities are well and we need to work to improve the communities so that we all can feel safe. Alan Jenkins said, " That means treating each other fairly and trying to examine our own biases." Now more than ever it is time that the important for Americans to reassess the struggles of inequality and improve that upon us today.

I think all of this information that we got from the article was very important that kids our age should know because we don't realize what we have these days. Should be the same distance from the hospitals and jobs as the people need. It just proves some of the inequalities that we have out in the world. Use as people need to be more fair and kind in the long run. Though many countries have gotten better at all the equal, we are a long way from being equal.

Lynching in America Garrett Lemke

2024-01-11 21:04:19 UTC

I read "Lynching in America by PBS; American Experience." it was very scary in the south in the 19th and 20th century when lynching became very popular by the KKK and other racist hate groups. lynching, and act of terror meant to spread fear among African Americans. Author Richard Wright, who was born near Natchez in southwest Mississippi, knew of two men who were lynched—his step-uncle and the brother of a neighborhood friend. Although the practice of lynching had existed since before slavery, it gained momentum duringReconstruction, when viable black towns sprang up across the South and African Americans began to make political and economic inroads by registering to vote, establishing businesses and running for public office.Many whites—landowners and poor whites—felt threatened by this rise in black prominence.