“Why is the killing of 1 million a lesser crime then the killing of one person?” (Scream Bloody Murder). Throughout history groups of people have been killed by ruling powers, but the unlawful acts went without title until recent events in the 1940ʼs. The mass killings in Germany activated against the Jews created a new word, genocide. “Genocide refers to the widespread murder and other acts committed by governments or other groups with the intent to destroy - in whole or in part- a national
their race from contamination, some racists justify the domination and destruction of races they consider to be either superior or inferior. The most obvious form of racism is colour prejudice, which is prejudice against people who have a different colour skin from your own; in Britain, the United States and South Africa this is usually referred to as a "black / white" issue. In South Africa, differences between people with black skin and white skin were institutionalised
French, Cherokee, and African descent, was nineteen in 1855 when men tried to kidnap her and sell her as a slave. Her first husband, Lewis Leary, was killed in 1859 at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, during John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal. Throughout Mary Langston's life, she treasured Lewis's bullet-riddled shawl, an emblem of his martyrdom. She often covered young Langston with it as he slept on her daybed. Mary Langston's first husband, Lewis Leary, had participated in John Brown's raid