Jonesboro High School Incident Analysis

The reporting party (RP) received a call from mental health psychologist Shannon Salonga from Villa Park High School 18042 East Taft Ave., Villa Park CA 92861 (714) 532-8020 Cell (714) 628-4398. Shannon is resident Olawale's psychologist and sees him at his school. Olawale disclosed during the session that he feels unsafe and bullied by other children in the group home. Olawale revealed that on two different occasions two different kids in the group home have been physically aggressive with him. The names of the two children involved and the dates of incidents were not provided. The Olawale reported that the group home staff always took appropriate action. In one incident a resident ripped up his poster in his bedroom, pushed him off a counter

Many African Americans would have separate schools, bus seats, and even fountain drinks for the “colored”. If an African American would ever break these “laws”, they were either jailed, beaten, or killed for it. In response, many Africans saw the negative effects of violence and instead of choosing to fight back violently, they chose to protest through “nonviolence [,] as it grows from Judaic-Christian traditions [and] seeks a social order of justice permeated by love” (Doc. A). Many African Americans believed that through nonviolence it would help benefit the fight for equality because it would help them gain sympathy and support from the people through the sight violence being used on peaceful people. However, many African American’s were getting frustrated at how long it was taking to gain equality, protection of civil rights, and justice in courts so many thought that the time had “come for black people to arm themselves against [violence] before it [was] too late” (Doc. F) Many African Americans then started to turn to violence to try to push the fight for equality, but this was ultimately a disastrous decision because this caused the Civil Rights Movement to lose a lot of support they had from the

The American Civil Rights Movement in the late 1950s and 1960s generated massive international following and controversy, which made the movement one of the most important in U.S. history. The movement’s legacy can still be felt today, with the positive aspects, such as voting rights to African Americans and wide spread desegregation of public facilities, still being felt in the United States, and in many similar models across the globe. Although there were many “battlegrounds” where civil issues were debated, many people who know of the movement today would argue that the movement’s heart was rooted in the Deep South, ironically where it could be argued that the mentality of people living in the area at the time were the most violently opposed to such civil rights. In contrast, those who championed the Civil Rights Movement chose the tactic of nonviolence, at least at first, as a tool to dismantle racial segregation, discrimination, and inequality. They followed models that Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists had commissioned, using principles of nonviolence and passive resistance. Civil rights leaders had understood that segregationists would do anything to maintain their power over blacks. So, in consequence, they believed some changes might be made if enough people outside the

Alabama was often the epicenter of civil rights activism and steadfast perseverance for African Americans during the 1960s. It is where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led his congregation and where four little girls were murdered and 22 citizens were injured when the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed. It is also where Dr. King and other activists planned the march on Washington, where he and others leaders like John Lewis were met with violence but ultimately claimed victory in the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965. And who could forget the powerful images of the Birmingham Children’s Crusade of 1963, where young, non-violent protesters were met with high-power water hoses, beaten with batons and threatened by police

While guns made the civil rights and freedom movement possible — Cobb admits in his interview that, there is a missed lesson. Cobb believes that what truly defines the freedom movement was not solely guns, but grassroots organizing in rural communities in the south. When discussing the violent eruption on East Eight Street Cobb writes, “As it had in the white community, word of the arrests had spread rapidly through the black community, who felt that James’s life and possibly his mother’s life were in peril” (Cobb). Over one hundred black people organized the night that white police officers and white supremacists went out looking for James Stephenson and his mother. Black people organized themselves and were ready to protect each other and their community using guns as self-defense. However, if it were not for guns, the black community would not have been able to organize the way it had during the Freedom Movement. The students who travelled to Mississippi and other southern states during this time eventually became the students Ella Baker organized into SNCC. These students were protected while utilizing grassroots organizing by southern black people who owned guns post war. Cobb recognizes organizing as tradition within the black community stemming from slavery through the freedom movement to present day

Living in low-income and impoverished neighborhoods with little upward mobility and the way African American teens are treated and seen as in society are also major factors in the growing violence in predominantly black schools. Preventing violence in black teens begins with changing the environmental factors that affect African American adolescent males. Also, by providing support from the home, classroom, and community, the effects of the socioeconomic and social disadvantages will begin to decrease.

The book that I will be discussing is “This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed”, written by Charles E Cobb Jr. Cobb wrote this book to discuss the importance of the armed self-defense movement. Cobb wrote specifically on this subject because in talking about the civil rights movement, many only discuss the nonviolent activists and their role. The armed self-defense also played a pivotal role that often gets over looked. Cobb examines the relationship between nonviolent activists and armed activist and how together they were able to succeed. This body of work helps the reader understand that it was not just one view that made Civil Rights successful, but the partnership between the two that allowed them to succeed.

At Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, several African American students took there armed automatic weapons and completely took over a dining hall. Bottle-garbed soldiers tear gassed anti-war demonstrators at a rally that took place just outside the Pentagon in Washington D.C., these also were African-Americans. Also police brutally beat protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (source 5)

Most African Americans who used violence as a means to acquire racial equality used it purely as a form of defense in their communities. The following excerpt from the essay “Race, Gender, and the Civil Rights Movement: The Struggle in Mississippi” by Steve Estes, that's included in the book Public Lives/Public Moments, gives us an illustration of African Americans using self-defense and their struggles with it even being leaders of the NAACP, “The debate came to a head in 1959. That year, the national leadership of the NAACP [Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People] denounced the militant stance taken by Robert Williams. A veteran of the

During the Late Nineteenth Century, white southerners used strict laws within the legal system and violence to prolong the economic and political oppression of African Americans which led to the Jim Crow Segregation system being created. Although the southern whites were trying to maintain the oppression, blacks relied on each other’s help and the help of the military to fight back and keep order and peace as best as they could.

When making a stand with non-violent resistance you make people aware of the problem at hand. In Warriors Don’t Cry newspapers and the NAACP are always making people aware of the violence in Central High, a newspaper article headers says, “JUDGE ORDERS INTEGRATION - Arkansas Gazette , Tuesday,

In order to understand the underlying problems, I have researched the issue of k-12 students protesting gun violence. Throughout my research, I have learned about gun laws and statistics regarding gun violence. It is clear to me that students protesting gun violence is a problem because they want to ban assault rifles, many students are uneducated about guns, and the media instilling an irrational fear in students is not the solution to deterring gun

Violence also proved to be unproductive because it only caused more resistance and chaos in time of confrontation. Violent protests such as riots ended up damaging the Black Community. African Americans resulted being the victims of these riots, and as a result the most affected by the violent confrontations. Moreover, the use of violence created stiff race relations between the African Americans and White. Demonstrating that the violence method was ineffective for the civil rights movement is the fact that the “Black power movement faded almost as quickly as it appeared” (Ware 161).

Children always needed armed soldiers to escort them safely to school. Nine black teens who attended little rock central high school got escorted every single day. They were kept safe from their classmates and neighbors. Reporters and photographers quickly supported the scene and the situation became worldwide. The media recorded. The first of nine teens, Elizabeth Eckford was waved off of school grounds and rifles were raised. Once the situation got big more and more people started caring. Most people saw that there was a problem but didn’t take the time to care.

Peaceful resistance is a major part of American history, from the American Revolution to the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement to the Travel Ban protests of today. These instances of peaceful resistance shape American society for the better, as the voices of minorities are heard and unjust laws are ended. Peaceful resistance does positively impact a free society, as supported by Henry Thoreau, demonstrated by the 1960 Civil Rights Movement, and anticipated by protests of today.