Assess the impact of the Stonewall Riots On Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Liberation as well as its effects the LGBT community as a whole. The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent protests against police harassment by the Gay community of New York City in 1969. While not planned; a spur of the moment uprising, the riots managed to explain to the world that the gay community are oppressed, and that we were not going to take it anymore. While not the beginning of the fight for homosexual rights, with demonstrations and other violent protests happening within America during the decades up until the ’69 riots. They affected great change in the mentality and approach of the then gay liberation movement.
The rising price of bread and the locking of the third estate out of its meeting hall were short term causes of the revolution which many Parisians and French citizens were angered by. Finally, the spark that ignited the revolution was the ordering of the Swiss guards to Paris by Louis the XVI, which appeared too many Parisians as a direct threat to them and the National Assembly. These causes had a huge influence on the break if revolution in 1789 and were the main reasons to the downfall of the French empire and Louis the XVI. The first cause of the French Revolution was the Ancien Regime which caused chaos between the different estates and left the people deeply divided. The people of France were divided into three estates.
Most people are unfamiliar with World War I impact on American society. $33 billion was wasted on the war, interprets the government to tax everything thin from tobacco to luxury goods. The Great Migration impacted African Americans where they moved from the South to the big cities where they faced negative and positive issues. Women in war changed how we women are today, back then women starting taking men's job. Initially, billions were wasted on war, bonds were a problem, and propaganda started to rise.
These taxations also led to strikes and demonstrations becoming commonplace so could have caused Bloody Sunday itself. Witte’s economic reforms also led to another economic factor that caused the 1905 Revolution, the industrialisation of Russia. High speed industrialisation of Russia led to urbanisation causing a high density of people living in the towns and cities. This aided a social factor, the creation of a new urban working class and led to poor working and living conditions in Russia, this caused even greater resentment of the government and helped the formation of the SDs who also had a part to play in the 1905 Revolution. This high density of people living in towns and cities made it easier for revolutionary parties easier to rally and less easy to crush than when most people lived in more rural areas.
Spike Lee's 1989 movie 'do the right thing' is how the racism was inflicting at that time. The most powerful part of the movie for me was racism plus the division between the different racial groups, the racism seemed to be the biggest issue in the movie along with it was powerful because it showed the viewers how much of a struggle it was for the different racial groups to live a normal life without feeling the sense of segregation between the other racial groups. It makes us all aware of how effective it was back then and how much society has changed within the racism. Everyone’s hate begins to smoulder which turns into a big explosion of violence at the very end of the film. Mise-en-scene plays a huge role in this movie.
In this section we are introduced to the golden years of Detroit in the 1940’s, a city that was once thriving on the massive wartime workforce that largely came from migrating blacks from the South, was quickly becoming defined by industrial business relocations, industrial plant terminations, widespread unemployment, lack of housing subsequent to rapid population expansions, and the ramifications that these events had on the local economy in Detroit. Sugrue specifically delves into the housing issues in Detroit that festered due to reluctance of racial integration in the city and the actions taken by wealthier white natives and local government institutions to confine blacks to specific areas of very low quality living spaces. During the wartime efforts, large companies like Ford that were located in Detroit were
Curtis Long COMM 300 MLK Analysis This paper will analyze and discuss the “I have a dream speech” by Dr. Martin Luther king Jr. which was presented in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. The speech is about the failed promises of equality for all, focusing mainly on blacks. The speech culminated a civil rights march on Washington in an attempt to secure rights for African-Americans. The march, King's speech, and other boycotts and protests eventually led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed many aspects of discrimination. The reason that the speech had such a massive impact is due to the tense social mood of the time and it gave black activists a vision for the future.
Why did the riots of 1981 happen and to what extent did the reaction to the riots reflect institutionalised racism? The race riots that erupted throughout England during 1981 were the result of a growing tensions between the black community and the local police forces. Indeed, 1981 has been described as “an annus mirabilis of UK race relations” (Cashmore & Troyna, 1990). But why was there such tension between the local communities within the affected areas and their local police force? Could steps have been taken to avoid the civil disturbances, the largest seen in the 20th century in Great Britain, that followed?
The Evolution of Occupy Wall Street The Occupy Wall Street Movement began in November 2011 and quickly spread to major cities across the United States and the world. The Movements initial message of Wall Street greed and government corruption resonated with citizens due to the negative economic situation in the United States, but If you look at successful social movements like the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s or the long struggle for women’s suffrage, you see that each had clear goals and effective leadership. The Occupy Movement has rendered itself ineffective because their goals have become unclear, and a lack of central leadership has left them without any legitimate figures to express the views and solutions of the Movement. Can the Occupy Movement survive without a leader? Many of the protesters like Los Angeles chapter member Joe Briones believes it can, and that the true strength of the Movement comes from not having a leader.
David von Drehles nonfiction novel, Triangle: the Fire That Changed America, accounts events before and after the tragedy, and why the Triangle disaster is significant to America as a whole, and not just exclusive to New York. Turn of the century New York City government and politics was predominantly machine oriented. The most notorious party was Tammany Hall. Tammany was chock full of influential city leaders and ladder climbing underlings. The administration steadfastly assisted immigrants and the poor with provisions such as food and gas.