Newton Knight Research Paper

The novel “To Kill a Mocking Bird” is based in the fictional small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. When slavery and the Civil War were still present in the people’s way of living and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s are far from close. The novel focuses on the Finches: Scout, her brother Jem, and their father Atticus, and the trial of Tom Robinson and how it affected them and the town. Witnessing the injustice of Tom Robinson’s trial changed Scout Finch in many ways. Scout learns that there is more than one type of courage, she learns about race and its complexity, and she also changes how she views the people around her by putting herself

Huey Percy Newton, better known as the co-founder of the Black Panthers. Was born on February 17, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana. To Amelia Johnson Newton and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist preacher. The Newton’s respected Louisiana's former governor Huey P. Long so much that they named their seventh and youngest son after him. Long who was perhaps the most controversial governor that Louisiana’s has ever had, and was killed seven years after being elected governor. Walter was known for working several jobs to support his enormous family. He was very against Amelia working outside of the home. The family migrated to California during the 1940s, in search of professions in the war industries.

William Johnson was a slave before being freed at age 11, along with his mother, Amy, and sister, Adelia. He got his barber shop in 1830 from his half brother, James Miller. After starting his barber shop, he keeps a diary and he used it until he died. He also owned a bathhouse and bookstore.He married named Ann Battles, who was also a free african american. They had about 11 children before Johnson died. He lived in the free town of Natchez, and he almost had about three thousand dollars in 1835. Johnson was friends with other freed african americans like Robert McCary and hunted and fished with them. Johnson and Baylor Winn got into a dispute and it ended in Johnson`s favor in court. Winn was upset and shot Johnson when he was returning to

Fans of Bringing Up Bates know that Lawson has been working on his music career. It turns out that Lawson is now working to start a country music career on his own without the family. Lawson has relied on the family a lot, but he is stepping out of his comfort zone. Fox News got the chance to talk to Lawson Bates and find out what is going on with him. Lawson already has some music out there and has been on reality television for four seasons now.

Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. was born July 15, 1940. He was originally from Chicago, Illinois, but moved to Little Rock, Arkansas with his mother and stepfather. His stepfather, William D. Griffen, was a civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Simmon’s biological father, William Simmons, died when he was only three years old. Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. eventually dropped out of school and joined the U.S. Navy. In 1963, he left the navy. Two years later, he joined the air force for twenty two years. Simmons retired in 1979 with the rank of master sergeant.

Charles “Chick” King was born on November 10th, 1930, in Paris, Tennessee. He lived in Paris most of his life until he was drafted to the Major League Baseball Association in 1951. He played for 11 years. Chick’s sport career started at Grove High School where he was an all- round athlete. He played football from 1947 to 1949 as well as ran track and played basketball. He was named to the all- state. He was also named to the all- county basketball team. After winning awards and playing greatly at Grove, he decided to attend the University of Memphis. He ran track at Memphis but mostly enjoyed the great game of baseball. That’s when he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in 1951.

William Johnson was born a slave in the year 1809 but was freed by his owner, probably his father in 1820. His owner had earlier released William’s sister and mother. William Johnson upon being freed became a barber apprentice in Natchez town. William’s brother-in-law had a barbershop which he took over in 1830 and later on got married to Amy Battles. They had eleven children. Amy was a free person and just like William was black (National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox, 2007). William Johnson went on to operate several barbershops, owned land, and rented buildings. He also had a bathhouse and regularly loaned white and black people money which was paid at an interest. Like other free blacks in the South, William Johnson owned slaves and at times sold them too. The diary is a record of his daily personal endeavors, majorly about the payment of his debts, the items he bought and the running of his family. William was murdered by a free black man, Baylor Winn, with whom they had a boundary conflict. Despite his murderer being identified, he escaped prosecution since according to his evidence, he was a white man, and so no black man could testify against him (Humanities Center Resource Toolbox, 2007).

Racial Bias and Automatic Response in the Misidentification of WeaponsOn March 18th, 2018 Sacramento police officers shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in the backyard of his grandmother’s house after mistaking his cellphone for a gun. The fatal shooting of Stephon Clark is just one of many incidences where unarmed black men have fallen victim to implicit racial biases. When police officers are pressured to make split second decisions their unconscious biases toward black men becomes present and influences their judgement against black men whom they suspect to be armed with guns but are in fact unarmed. With today’s technological advancements and the media’s ability to reach a large population of people there is greater awareness of

Dr. Butler A. Jones , 86, A professor emeritus of sociology at the Cleveland State Univeristy  . Butler Jones was also a long time activist against and racial discrimination. Butler A.Jones was born in Birmingham Alabama on July 22,1916. Butler A.Jones was the son of Nettie Butler Jones his mother and Roscoe C.Jones his father. After the death of Butlers mother , Butler was then raised b y his grand parents who had been born during the time of slavery. Butler A.Jones graduated from More house College in 1937. Buter recieved his Master's degree at Atlanta University. He also earned his Ph.D from New York Univeristy. Lillian Webster Jones , Butlers first wife, Died in 1978 after being married for 39 years. Butler then remarried for a second

When the United States of America joined World War 1 in 1917 the rst of the world had been at war for three years. The U.S. deployed an estimated 4,355,000 troops to around the world. Around 204,004 of them returned home injured. Henry Johnson was one of those soldiers.

Before Knight captured Jones County, he amassed allies who consisted of deserters and slaves. In the movie, Knights is shown having a deep companionship with the fictional fugitive slave, Moses Washington. Although the character, Moses Washington, was made up, Knight was very close with black people. Knight even married a slave named Rachel, which the movie correctly depicted. Even after Rachel and Newton Knight were married, Knight's former wife, who was wife still lived with them. Again, the movie diverts from the truth by showing Serena and Newton with only one child when in reality they had nine; the movie does this in order to allow for a deeper romance between his new wife, Rachel. Knight’s closeness with black people was somewhat over exaggerated in the

I was a cotton picker, as as are many of the slaves, and I stayed outside most of the day. At that time of year, it was frigid, and all we received were cheap quilts to stay on the fringe of death. I didn’t know what a quail sounded like, but I hoped that I would know when it did

Many slaves on the plantation had been drafted by the confederates to fight everyone of them have not been heard from since. One day nathaniel came by to talk to me when I was picking cotton when he announced that he had just been drafted to fight. I had never seen Nathaniel in so much despair. He was was so sad because he had to fight against his own freedom.”

The Weeping Time was one of the biggest events in the history of the United States in 1857. It was the largest sale of human beings by one man, and his team. This all taking place on a racetrack in Savannah Georgia. Pierce Butler realized he had thrown the majority of his money away, and even though he was selling his other properties, it just wasn’t enough to make up for his growing debt. He decided that auctioning off his slaves would solve his debt problem. Pierce Butler inherited a hefty estate, and owned a total of 900 slaves that also lived on his plantation. Pierce split the group of 900 evenly and sent one half to the plantation of John. The other half would be sent on boat, or railway to the racetrack. George Fisher was in opposition

During the 1930s, there were three Triple Crown winners. The first winner was Gallant Fox. In 1930, at three years old, Gallant Fox won the U.S. Triple Crown. Gallant Fox was a large bay horse with a white blaze, four white coronets, and a wall eye. He was sired by Sir Gallahad III and his dam was Marguerite. Gallant Fox was foaled in Paris, Kentucky at Bull Hancock’s Claiborne Farm on March 23, 1927. His owner was William Woodward Sr. Gallant Fox had a very short racing career. He was only raced from 1929-1930. He won eleven out of seventeen races that he started in. Gallant Fox was trained by “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons realized that Gallant Fox worked best with other horses, so he used relays to train him because no other horses