Southern United States

stock market crash of 1929. “As cotton prices dropped from eighteen cents per pound on the eve of the Depression to less than six cents per pound in 1933, some 12,000 black sharecroppers lost their precarious footing in southern agriculture and moved increasingly toward southern, northern, and western cities,” (Trotter). As the number of people needing jobs in cities escalated, African Americans faced more difficulties. The unemployment rate for blacks was 50

was not the reason the United States went to war. Also white men weren’t the only ones who fought in the war, many black men enlisted and were given awards for their bravery. Through trial and error abolition of slavery became the latent reason for the Civil War. When Lincoln was elected into the office, the South realized that slavery was coming to an end. Many southern States feared the economic drop, this led the southern states to secede from the Union. The very first state to secede was South

Exactly how “black” is black America? African American culture in the United States has evolved continuously throughout United States history carrying on various cultural traditions of African ethnic groups brought here during slavery. The U.S. Census Bureau defines African Americans as "a person having origins in any of the Black race groups of Africa."[1]. African American culture is derived chiefly from people originated from sub-Saharan and Sahelian cultures in Africa. Over hundreds of years

Review: Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 Between 1880 and 1930, lynching became not only a phenomenon but a way of life in the southern states. Lynching was racially motivated as it targeted mostly blacks. Within this 50 year period, 1000s of blacks and hundreds of whites were killed by lynch mobs within the southern states alone. Lynching was bloody and ruthless and a horrifying way to be executed. In Fitzhugh Brundage’s book, Lynching in the New South Georgia and Virginia

Faulkner each author gives their own views and opinions of the south, but each story has different perspective of the southern conduct shown by literary elements. The point of view of each story is the same and they have similar attributes which aides in the main character’s development, but each story has a deeper connection to it. The setting of both stories is set in the deep southern region in between the 1930’s and 1940’s while slavery was still very popular, but it aides in the development of each

years. Visit any small southern town’s local cemeteries and you will most likely find graves decorated with confederate flags in honor of those who served the Confederacy. National battlefields and parks set aside to preserve lands so many fought and died on can be found in every state that engaged in the great struggle. How so many young Americans found themselves caught up in the violent divide which gripped the country is the question that seems to consume the United States even today. There is

During the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans sought to have their Constitutional Rights permitted. One form of protesting came forth in the form of the Freedom Rides. After slavery ended, many amendments and laws were created to ensure the rights of African Americans, but because of prejudices and racism, most of these were ignored. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Fergunson established "separate but equal" on interstate transportation in 1896, but in 1947 the Supreme Court found

Harper Lee tied the Southern situation, during the 1930’s, to fiction in her most famous novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The era of America’s Great Depression led to an escalation in racial profiling of Negroes, and an intensification in lynching of those Negroes, as mentioned in the book, Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism (Curriden & Phillips, Jr. 198-214). This directly correlates to the trial of Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” (Lee

During Reconstruction there were many failures recorded in this time period, such as the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK established in 1866 after blacks were given free equality in the United States. The members of the KKK would stretch all throughout the southern states and threaten Jews, Catholics, blacks, and republicans. The klan has caused over a thousand deaths. When going around and hitting every town the klan would meet up and hold underground meetings. They unfortunately could not weaken the political

Theses narratives are what shape the way humans see the world from the past in today’s eyes. In 2014, a certain debate has sparked. The topic of this debate was which narrative is most accurate of telling the story of black people’s history in the United States. What started off with Paul Ryan, an American Politician, making his point of view on the matter public, ended with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jonathan Chait engaging in a heated argument. Paul Ryan and Ta-Nehisi Coates both take on a position that argues