Homer Plessy's Discipline

Emotions ran high, especially in the South. Which was where the infamous case of Plessy

The Tulsa Race Riot is an event that is quite possibly the most unknown and misconstrued piece of history in the United States of America. When and if it is discussed, it’s taken as a single event that happened in Tulsa and was deadly and very destructive. The many theories of what occurred and how it came to the extreme mob like violence taken on Tulsa’s own civilians. The evidence found suggest there were alternative motives in Tulsa for acquiring land that the black civilians held.

The Opelousas Massacre was a horrifying event that occurred on September 28, 1868, in Landry Parish, Louisiana. The riot was sparked by conflict between black freedmen and whites over the political control of the state of Louisiana. This resulted in a massive killing of blacks as whites had the overwhelming advantage in numbers and weapons. What’s most interesting about this case is the mystery surrounding the accounts of deaths. No one can approximately confirm how many people were killed in this massacre. Some sources identify as few as 30 people killed. Other sources estimate killings to over 300 people. The Opelousas Massacre was one of the deadliest riots to occur against African Americans during the era of Reconstruction.

Homer Plessy was one eights black and under the Louisiana Law he was classified as black, therefore, he would have to ride in the black’s only car, even though normally with his pale skin color he could have ridden the white’s car only without anyone noticing. On June 7th, 1892 Plessy did just that he bought a first class ticket and boarded a whites-only car.

Homer Plessy was a white man who boarded a train carriage in Louisiana, in 1892, and was kicked out because his blood was one eighth African. Plessy was taken to a police station and charged with the crime, recognized by Louisiana law, of having refused to ride the train in a black only carriage.

On July 27, 1919, an African American teen named Eungene Williams crossed the unofficial segregation border on the beaches of Chicago between 25 Th and 27th street trying to escape the hot summer weather, was stoned to death by white beach goers. When the black bystanders accused the group of stoners of killing the young boy, the police refused to arrest the white males and began to arrest the black bystanders on some minor charge. Things really heated up after one of the black bystanders attacked

In 1892, Homer Plessy was a passenger in a railroad and who refused to sit in a Jim Crow car. He brought before Judge John H. Ferguson of the Criminal Court from New Orleans, who upheld the state law. The law was challenged in the Supreme Court on grounds that it conflicted with the 13th and 14th Amendments. Although, the Supreme Court had ruled in 1896, Plessy v Ferguson inculcated the “separate but equal” doctrine and passed laws entailing the segregation of races, arguing that Jim Crow laws were constitutional. The case was devastating for African Americans allowing the oppression of an entire race. The Supreme Court system in practice was separate and unequal;

Homer A. Plessy was an African American cobbler (shoemaker) who was riding the Louisiana train. He sat in the Railroad car reserved for whites and was arrested when he revealed to the conductor that he was African American. When Plessy stated his plea that the Louisiana Jim Crow Railroad Car Law was unconstitutional, it was overruled by John H. Ferguson, a judge of the criminal court for New Orleans. There were challenges with their law in their Supreme Court; the problem was that it was conflicting with their Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment. The Thirteenth amendment was meant to prohibit slavery and the Fourteenth amendment stated that any human born or naturalized in the US of any race are american citizens. When the case was brought

Reverend William Council was beaten by three men for refusing to leave his paid seat in first class for the "darkies car" (Kelley, 2010, p.40). With no laws providing protection on a train, a black man traveling without a woman was allowed to be attacked. James Weldon Johnson and his schoolmates were forced to leave their seats when they were told by white passengers that a "flurry of bullets" were going to be fired at their feet at the next train stop after using their right to say "no" (Kelley, 2010, p. 40).

The summer of 1919 saw a national ethnic hysteria of battles, genocides, and lyn​chings throughout the North and the South. The riot was known to be started by the Whites, because white men decided to stone down an African American Teenager (Eugene Williams) in Lake Michigan for crossing an unofficial segregation line which caused him to drown to death. Once policemen refused to arrest the men, tension began, emerging the riot. The summer of 1919 saw a national ethnic hysteria of battles, genocides, and lyn​chings throughout the North and the South. The riot was known to be started by the Whites, because white men decided to stone down an African American Teenager (Eugene Williams) in Lake Michigan for crossing an unofficial segregation

After watching the film ‘Mississippi Burning’ by Alan Parker, I decided to investigate racism in America 50 years ago and today. The reason I chose to investigate racism in America 50 years ago and today is because I am extremely interested in what encouraged the offenders of racism 50 years ago and if they are still being encouraged today. In order to find out the answer for this, I have chosen the key questions of, ‘Who were the offenders of racism 50 years ago?’, ‘What were the laws and police contribution to racism 50 years ago?’, and lastly, ‘Are the offenders of racism still being encouraged today?’.

In 1944 in rural Georgia, or anywhere in the US for that matter, a Black man with a suspended or missing license driving was an invitation for the White law officer to beat him or worse! It was the South, the old

The police force in particular, played a very big part in punishing African Americans in the aftermath of the storm. On Thursday, September 1 Patricia Thompson and her family were on the street across from the convention center. There were cops screaming racial slurs at them and pointing guns at people. “I look down at my five-year-old granddaughter, Baili McPherson, and the light from one of the guns was actually on her forehead(Thompson page 142). This happened because Patricia Thompson stood up and tried to use the bathroom in the convention center, she was appalled at the fact that they were pointing a gun at a five-year-old. The police saw that she was black and they thought she was doing something bad. They blamed her so they pointed a gun at her granddaughter. The police did this on more than one occasion, they pointed their guns at this group of innocent people twice. The first time that the police raised their guns at Patricia Thompson was on

Even though there are different accounts of the events that took place in Memphis, between April 30 and May 3, 1866, what occurred was racially motivated to an extent. In the evening of Monday April 30, 1866, a few officers were walking down Causey Street. They met a few discharged African-American soldiers who were celebrating their release from the Army and forcefully moved them off the sidewalk.1 In doing so a Negro fell, and in turn an officer tripped over him.2 The police then drew their weapons and proceeded to attack the Negroes for no reason. Logically this was not necessary. After a few minutes the police stopped beating the men and continued with their day. The Black ex-soldiers got up and returned to Fort Pickering.

In America, there is currently a nationwide agreement that our race relations are in a poor state, including the racial division that exists between U.S. citizens, law enforcement officers, and the criminal justice system. With help from the media, the exploitation of this division becomes worse and a majority of the blame is placed on the officers and criminal justice system. But the question that remains is at what point is discrimination justifiable and the use of it to bring a criminal to justice. To help explain the answer to this question, we have to examine the early history of the use of discrimination, causes, example cases, when it is justifiable, and the consequences of such actions.