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John Brown Stereotypes

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Hundreds of soldiers gathered on 2 nd December, 1859 to offer security for a bearded shabbily old dressed man. The meeting took place in the outskirts of Virginia at a place known as
Charles Town. The old man’s name was John Brown. John Brown’s execution rapidly became and still is a pivotal event that has gone down in the history books as the occasions that are deeply submerged in controversy. There was a bold claim by some of Brown’s critics that he was obsessed with religion and deserved to be executed for manslaughter (Healey 32). Other people claimed that Brown was a heroic and selfless martyr whose execution was disastrous. It has been …show more content…

There was a great opposition on the increasing issue of slavery in the United States in
1859. To end slavery, Brown had a strong belief in the need of violence to bring a halt to slavery and in equality in both social and political of all the races. It was due to these views that Brown was made party to the Northern radical fringe (Shusta 72). Brown was convicted and executed due to being a leader of twenty-one black and white followers who attacked and took charge of an arsenal of federal weapons at Harpers Ferry in Virginia. Brown did this with a hope of creating a huge uprising of slaves. On 16 th October, 1859, Brown led the raid of the arsenal but
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2 they failed due to lack of support from the local slaves. In a span of not more than thirty-six hours, Brown and his forces were swamped by local and federal troops. Brown was then captured and wounded severely. Ten of his men were also murdered.
After the decision by the Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the Voting Rights Act of
1965 was passed. This passage marked a watershed period filled with accomplishments. The accomplishments went far more than racial barriers and brought a transformation in the …show more content…

There are additional more images of testaments of black activism and the backlash of the whites that followed. It was these events that led to the mid-twentieth century civil rights movement. There has always been a struggle of rights by the African Americans. The civil rights movement is considered by many to have started as soon as the Africans were brought in to the
American shores as slaves in chains way earlier (Shusta 78). The blacks who were against their enslavement and called for the basic citizenship rights formed the base of the modern civil rights movement. The first slaves to enter America came in 1619. Blacks gained their freedom after the civil war led to the Thirteenth Amendment that led to the abolishment of slavery. The blacks who were freed were illiterate and did not own property or have money. Inequality and racism was
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3 very rampant in these days, most specifically in the South where slavery had gone on for a long period of time. Numerous democratic reforms were put in place by the state and federal governments between 1865 and 1875 (Shusta 90). Blacks were granted with equal rights

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