Exhilaration In The Generational Protests

They were also arrested. (Auerbach 1688) That's all it took for this riot to come into play, a few people unhappy about the way the police handled the situation. The next thing you know its a few thousand unhappy people.

The later half of the Homelander Generation, also known as “Generation Y,” is known for having little to no identity. Popular culture says that history repeats itself and that I belong to a generation where an overall style does not exist. From music to clothing everyone is desperately trying to reach into the past. The 60s, 70s, and 80s all have defining styles prevalent to that specific decade, for example disco. As a result to addressing the uniqueness of California and its culture in the 1990s Bay Area patrons began a move toward rap, hard-hitting beats, baggy clothing and defined dance styles. California was home to the newest cohesive generational movement. It was home to the development of the Hyphy Movement and the defining aspects of a craze that in itself was crazy. In areas that include San Francisco, Oakland, Fairfield and Hayward transformed. The Hyphy Movement demanded acknowledgment of the Bay Area’s diverse and particularly its interesting take on the California Dream.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American Indian Movement grew into an influential force in American politics. Some notable events were their occupation of Wounded Knee as well as their occupation of Alcatraz Island. A few different governmental agencies such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the FBI saw AIM as a threat. They launched repeated attempts to disband the group. An example of this came during the trial after the second Wounded Knee incident. The prosecution prepared a man to give false testimony to the court in order to lock away one of the leaders. “Agent Price and perhaps Agent Williams had knowingly prepared this man to give false testimony; or, at the very least, they had found his story so convenient that they had not bothered to find out if it was true (Matthiessen 97).”

This riot lasted for three days, many African Americans were beaten, stabbed, kicked, stoned, hanged, or shot while trying to leave their burning homes. The police did nothing to help but spectate.

March 16 saw a demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama in which 580 demonstrators planned to march “from the Jackson Street Baptist Church to the Montgomery County Courthouse” (Reed 26). These protestors included a large number of northern college students. They met a police line a few blocks from the Courthouse and were forbidden from proceeding because “they did not have a parade permit” (Reed 26). Across the street came 40 or so students who planned on joining the group en route to the Courthouse. Eventually a few of the demonstrators dared to cross the street, led by James Forman who had organized the march. When it seemed the whole group would cross, police took action, with mounted officers and volunteers arriving at 1:12 pm. Riding into the small group of protestors, they forced most to withdraw, but a few stood fast around a utility pole where horsemen began to beat them. “A posseman

An example of anguish and suffering due to ‘white’ policy laws, was the attempted genocide era also known as ‘the stolen generation’ which lasted for decades (Krieken 2009).The stolen generation era was a “systematic annihilation for Aboriginal cultural identity” (Krieken 2009, p. 297) because children were forcibly taken from their families to institutional facilities that were either run by charitable or religious organizations with the intention of ‘civilizing’ them so they can integrate into white Australian society (Krieken 2009). The Australian government commissioners believed that ‘breeding mixed blood’ Aborigines with white settles will eventually lead to the “colour being bred out of them” (McCarthy 2000, para. 3) whilst those who

In one of the events of the American Indian Movement, the feeling of rage and

On the morning after the shooting, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) went to the school nearby the scene. They demanded a civilian review board to discipline the police, but they were greeted by fifty officers holding nightsticks. Two hundred protesters , primarily whites and Puerto Ricans, were occupying the area in front of the school by noon. The next day 250 people attended James Powell’s funeral under surveillance of policemen. In another part of town, people were putting on a rally discussing the rising crime rate in Hharlem. The funeral ended without any problems but later on the rally took a turn for the worst. The crowds made their way to the rooftops and began throwing bricks and bottles. The police rushed to secure the buildings arresting rioters and CORE members. Over 1,000 people assembled at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 125th street. The police began to break the crowd down into mobs which ran in different directions. One group made their way to the Theresa Hotel and a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a police car injuring an officer. The police, authorized to use firearms, proceeded to fire in the air to hold off rioters on the rooftops. One man was found dead after being shot by one of the officers random rounds. On the fourth day, July 19-20th, 75 volunteers created an “outpost” on 125th Street and 8th Avenue to develop aid for teenagers and women in the closing riot. The group began arguing with two white reporters

As smartphones are in everyone’s possession, “we’re being intimately exposed to footage of outrageous police brutality, terrorism victims jumping from the windows of a Paris theater and racially biased/sexist corporate emails revealed by hackers,” and protesting these actions and events morally nourish society. Referring to today’s world as “the age of protests,” Friedman addresses this issue of “moral arousal.” According to the article, “…we are becoming more morally aroused,” but are “…living in a never-ending storm…” A notable strength in speaking to this subject is the background information provided. Information about current protests, like in Germany, and past protests, like the dentist who killed the lion, helps give the reader background

Day by day, the protest grew more violent and became more massive. We had national guards protecting our facility. The death count of both our protestors and the guards grew steadily. POTUS notified the citizens that we will do our best to take as many people as possible.

Segregation was a big thing in 1961.It became such a big deal that many children and adults chose to go to jail just to make people see that segregation was a horrible thing to do. Africans Americans and Caucasians were separated by there skin color. But that all changed when the Freedom riders spoke out about segregation. The freedom riders changed society by changing the way people feel about African Americans in today’s society.

They were sprayed with hoses, pushed and shoved, and even hit. But yet they didn’t fight back because they believed that if they weren't violent they would be more likely to succeed in their movement. They were right because this was one of the major reasons the movement succeed. Today even people try to follow after this movement by making their movement’s non violent but they fail and people turn violent and get arrested and their movement does not succeed.

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From 1946-1964 there was a sudden growth in population known as the baby boomers. There was a rise of the younger generation that skyrocketed and made a large population of the United States. “Tom Hayden and Students For a Democratic Society” from The Movements of The New Left: A Brief History With Documents and “Young Americans For Freedom” from The Rise of Conservatism in America have many similarities and differences. Both articles aim to get the voices from the younger generation (at the time) to stand up for their rights and beliefs. They were going to be the change in the generation to come. They were in it together, but from the two articles the perspectives were different. Both groups were looking for their voices to be heard and influential

The youth in American rebelled so that ""rights" activism could be applied to ethnicity, gender, and nature" (The American Yawp). In my opinion I think youth rebellion started with segregation and just progressed from there. The North Carolina department store sit-in was the most important social movement of the 1960's. Once the barrier of segregation was broken it trickled down to other inequalities and freedoms. The media helped the rebellion but advertising counterculture ads. The media opened the youth's minds to other cultures such as different genres of music. Most of the youth were brought up listening to country music. The media introduced pop and rock music. Along with different music came artist from different ethnicity, culture,