Summary Of The Columbia Race Riot

It is interesting to note that, if a white person is lacking whiteness, the society will not point out the flaws of the person. However, if a person of color lacks whiteness, they are automatically put in an imaginary enclosed box, where we (Americans) judge or punish them for not being like us. It could all be because of fear, so our automatic reaction could be to fight back, distance ourselves and start using discriminatory practices against them. As long as Americans hold onto these biases and create this imaginary box for people of color, we are allowing millions of people to be in danger in our name.

Many people had their lives destroyed, fortunes lost, and names tarnished. One of these men was J.B. Stradford, who had been a prominent lawyer and

Whites called it a planned insurrection to murder white planters and confiscate their lands, a far-fetched idea that the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette endorsed and perpetuated as the “official” Arkansas version of the riot. Blacks said they had formed a union and hired a white Little Rock law firm to represent them in getting fair settlements for their cotton crops. The head of this law firm, Ulysses S. Bratton, a native of Searcy County and former assistant federal attorney, told the officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that the white version of the riot was false. He also told them and the United States Department of Justice that Phillips County blacks were victims of

As you weren't privy to this conversation, I should tell you that the possessive pronoun 'their' in the above quote has a unique antecedent: "white-women". My paternal relative made it his duty to forewarn me about the many evils that waited for me as an adult. To him, the number one threat to black men in the United States aside from living in the United States was and forever shall be white women.

The Chinese population of the United States used perseverance, resiliency and hard work to prove that they could succeed in a country that has blatantly discriminated against them and labeled them as “undesirable” and “ineligible for citizenship.”

A lot happened in the year of 1919. For example, there were the all of the strikes happening. Then there were the race riots. There were over 20 race riots in the year of 1919. The most serious one was the 1919 Chicago race riot. During the Chicago Race Riot an African American teenager was drowned in Lake Michigan after violating a segregation of chicago's and then was stoned by a group of white youths. The officer did not arrest the man That was witnessed for causing the African American teenager’s life. The reason it happened was simply because, if you were a different race then you didn't get to have the same privilege as the whites. I didn't think that it was right for the officer not to punish the man that had killed the teenager, but

On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 District of Columbia Police say they responded to a shots fired call at about 7:20 pm on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 in the 1400 block of Downing Street in Northeast, District of Columbia. Police say, thirteen year old, Tyrin Caldwell died after being shot while he and his fourteen year old best friend, who remains unnamed, played with a handgun that police later found to be unregistered. The boys had emptied the gun of the magazine cartridge and where playing with what they thought was an unloaded handgun; however the two teens made the fatal mistake of not checking the chamber of that gun, where there was a bullet still in it. That bullet, still in the gun, discharged while in the hands of Caldwell’s best friend. The bullet entered Caldwell’s armpit and traveled through his body and lodged himself into a dangerous area between his heart and lungs. Caldwell later died that evening during surgery. Caldwell’s family was devastated by their tragic loss. When asked, his father said he hopes police do no press charges on Caldwell’s 14-year old best friend because they both made the mistake of playing with this unregistered handgun. Though this is quite a noble stand made by Caldwell’s father, someone should be held accountable for the premature death of this young boy. I believe all states should have stronger gun control laws so that firearms do not wind up in the wrong hands, such as children, irresponsible adults, the mentally ill, and criminals.

Devega, Chauncey. "White America’s Racial Amnesia: The Sobering Truth about Our Country’s “race Riots”." Saloncom RSS. 1 May 2015. Web. 2 July 2015.

Racism and race are topics that regularly occupy our social media and news feeds. Even though, race is a social and abstract concept, it affects a wide variety of individuals in profound ways. After viewing the films on the Greensboro Massacre, my heart felt full of sorrow and dismay. A quote by former president Lyndon B. Johnson recurred through my mind “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact”. Racism and race are tightly intertwined concepts, rooted in misconceptions regarding biology and genetic factors. The United States is a color-coded society; moreover, our society prefers to classify individuals and put people into a box that gives them a label. Thus, the labels that are enforced upon us assist in reinforcing racism and racist ideologies. Due to all aspects of American life being shaped to some degree by race, racism will always exist. Racism will not end until we acknowledge ethnic and racial identities, dismantle the

It was July 25th, 1946, when a white mob in Georgia stopped a car carrying two African American couples, the mobbed then dragged them out and shot them to death. One of the victims, George Dorsey, was a military veteran who had just returned from serving five years overseas in World War II. His wife, Mae Dorsey, was also killed. Dorothy Malcom, the other woman in the car, was seven months pregnant. The mob cut her open and removed her unborn child. Her husband, Roger, had just been bailed out of jail after he was accused of stabbing a white man. An investigator estimated people in the crowd fired more than 60 plus shots at the two couples at close range. The horrific attack happened near Walton County, Georgia, not far from Moore’s Ford Bridge.

Darin Wilson, a white police officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an African American man, on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, MO. Protest demonstrations occurred immediately from the black community in Ferguson, leading to more violence. This incident sparked tension between the police and the African American communities across the U.S. resulting in a number of violent altercations, and deaths between the two groups within the last two years. This unrest, which remains today, can be attributed to present day racism and racial tension in America.

When I was a child, I thought that issues that shouldn’t matter were taken care of. It’s silly that people have issues over race. Thinking someone as lesser person doesn’t make things easier for them. At least with issues such as robbery, the criminals could at least think that they will get whatever they’re after. With race however, nothing is made easier by thinking someone is lesser than another. Judging people by race only brings bad feelings towards both people involved. Who would want that? Who would go out of their way to make someone feel bad about themselves if they didn’t do anything bad to them in the first place? This is what I thought as a child. The Ferguson Riots and the Charlestown massacre convinced me that race it still

As diverse as the city of Los Angeles is, it has a history of racial tension and civil unrest. From 1910, the start of the Mexican Revolution and World War I when President Theodore Roosevelt instituted the “brown scare” (Coerver, 2001), to 1913, when the California Alien Land Act prohibited Japanese immigrants and citizens of Japanese descent from owning land in California, to 1934, when 3000 Chinese immigrants were displaced to make way for Union Station, to 1942, when 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps, Los Angeles has historically been the center of racial controversy and tension (“Year by Year,” 1999). In 1943, Los Angeles was also full of young African Americans and Mexican Americans trying to protest the racism in the American culture by expressing themselves with their own music, clothing, culture, and style (Cosgrove, 1985). By the time of the Sleepy Lagoon murder in 1942, the stage had been set for the Zoot Suit Riots that occurred in June 1943. Although the riots only lasted ten days, the ramifications ranged from cultural repression on the part of many Mexican American families, to political activism on the part of others, and the beginning of reform within the Los Angeles Police Department.

Currently, there has been a major event occurring in the town of Wilmington, North Carolina between citizens of many races, and many political parties, including the Republican Party, Democratic Party, and the Populist Party. These parties had different political and racial views on government policies, and who should rule. Wilmington is a strong religious community, and is the center of African American political and economic success.

Imagine, traveling through the most racial violent state when you were fighting for black rights. Burmingham and Anniston, Alabama was more violent out of all the cities. The biggest attacks and the most violence happened there (Stoper). In Anniston, Alabama members were attacked in the most violent ways ever imagined (Stoper). Buses tires were slashed, they were even trapped in the bus. White attackers threw a bomb in the bus with hopes the riders would be burned alive (Stoper). Participants barely escaped with their lives when they crawled out the back of the bus at the last second (Stoper). When finally out of the bus, they were almost beaten by the white mob. One of members was beaten so badly he was crippled for life (Stoper). Later that week, riders were jailed for