There was a populous presence of law enforcement there from cops to militant members and everything in-between. The guards ordered everyone to disperse or risk getting detained. That then sparked a “pigs get off campus” chant by the protesters. The protesters started throwing things at the guards and the guards responded by tear-gassing them. When that didn’t work and it became clear that they were not going to disperse, at around 12:24 pm 77 National Guard members fired 67 rounds from M1 Garand rifles into the croud killing 4 and wounding 9 others, thus violently ending the protests.
Booker T. Washington was one of the first to be promoting African American Capitalisation and the first Black Leader in Civil Rights since the decline of Fredrick Douglas. This is very important as his position and ideas would affect the position of African Americans and the future of the Civil Rights Movement. The accommodationist approach was Washington’s approach to Civil Rights which would was outline in his famous Atlanta Compromise, here he suggested a compromise socially but economic equality of opportunity believing that social equality would come later. This can be compared to the most famous speech related to Civil Rights which was the “I have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King. This speech came much later than the Atlanta Compromise around the time of the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and thus seemed as if it represented a huge turning point for Civil Rights.
At the campus of Kent State University on May 4, 1970 protest against the war had erupted. The 300 students that had opposed the war so intensely that they had caused riot like damage in a nearby town only to return to campus to burn down the R.O.T.C. building. The local governor had ordered 750 National Guardsmen to the campus to “Eradicate the problem” also saying that the protesters were the “worst type of people we harbor in America” (Davidson−Gienapp−Heyrman−Lytle−Stoff, 2005, p. 2). After the protestors had refused to disperse after being ordered to do so the guardsmen had fired into the crowd killing four students and wounding nine others.
The KKK quickly adopted violent methods. The increase in murders finally resulted in a backlash among Southern elites who viewed the Klan's excesses as an excuse for federal troops to continue occupation. The organization declined from 1868 to 1870 and was destroyed by President Ulysses S. Grant's prosecution and enforcement under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. In 1915, the second Klan was founded, it preached racism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Communism, nativism, and anti-Semitism. Some local groups took part in lynchings, attacks on private houses and public property, and other violent activities.
When the fire company broke into the marshal’s office where the draft was being held the smashed the selection wheel and set fire to the building which is ironic because they put out fires. A deputy begged for the company to put out the fire but they refused and he was beaten and the draft was officially on hold. Workers from railroads, artisans, industrial workers, machine shops, laborers, and other employees didn’t show up for work that day as they were marching up 8th and 9th Ave and they gathered more people as they continued (Weil 147). The mob met in Central Park to discuss the situation and split up into two columns and went on their way (Bernstein 18). Some people started to bring down telephone poles and lines and this began this terrible insurrection that was to
Anti-Black Attitudes after Slavery It would be great to say that once slavery was eradicated everyone became seen as an equal, but that would be a lie. The notion that blacks were inferior to whites has been so deeply rooted in people’s minds and every day lives that even after slavery, it sprouted in new mediums. Across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, new forms of segregation grew from the ashes of the old. With discrimination, laws like Jim Crow, and mass incarceration, the fight for freedom had just begun. It Latin America, Haiti had the unique position of being the first independent Black Country.
The Kent State Massacre, May 4 1970, saw a peaceful protest by students turn violent when the National Guard was called in to disperse the protest. The National Guard shot and killed 4 students. They also shot bystanders – it led to a greater number of
In the year 1948, the National Party was voted into power and began to institute a policy of apartheid, which much more heavily favored the white minority at the expense of the black majority. The first multi-racial elections in 1994 brought an end to apartheid and ushered in a majority rule. Since then, South Africa has struggled to address apartheid-era imbalances in decent housing, health care, and education. South Africa and the United States have had similar ethical perspectives related to their history in dealing with separation of the people at one point or another. The United States still to this day is dealing with the aftermath of slavery and the Apartheid South Africa era continues to loom around.
Citizens are out in the streets protesting for their rights but in return they are getting killed and beaten for not obeying government commands. Very similar to what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr pulled against Alabama’s chief of police Bull Connor. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr directed his followers to hit the streets and protest in a non-violent way. Just so that they can be heard.
People were in panic running around trying to escape the Black Death. Some towns even rioted, “The combination of plague and fear of a Scottish invasion caused such unrest within Durham itself that there were riots on the streets.”16 People would leave their towns to run even futher away from the plague, stated in The Black Death essay “caring about nothing but themselves, abandoned their own city, their own houses, their dwellings, their relatives, their property, and went abroad…”17 The Black Death did not just affect men, but women as well caught the plague. When rich were sick they either ended up dying or leaving, when this happened many of their servants were left without a job, “…very often these servants lost their lives and their earnings.”18 Thus the economy started to do poorly. The economy was one of aspects that was affect the most by the Black Death, as stated in The Black Death Overview “The economy was probably hit the hardest of all the aspects of Europe.”19 Artisans were slowly disappearing which caused, people with skills to be more valuable the rich people.20 Farmers stop tending farms, farm animals were led astray, and people started to rob and pillage other towns. After the Black Death ended the economy slowly started to turn for the