The Appalachian South was used for its resources. Very few people lived there, therefore it was difficult to maintain, or as the book states, “...little to reinvest in its physical or human resources.” Also the textbook mentioned the working conditions. For example: employees viewed as cheap labor, requirements to buy from company stores, and low life expectancy rates.
INTRO This reflects onto the justice system millions of slaves had to suffer through everyday MICRO Frederick’s current slaveholder, Mr. Austin Gore never held back from exercising his capability of control. Mr. Gore was willing to punish slaves for something they did not commit. He favoured a dozen slaves enduring severe physical pain more than an overseer being punished for convicting a felony. MACRO This theme of control is represented well by Douglass’s overseer, Mr. Gore.
James Earl Ray arguably became one of the most infamous murderers of the 20th century when he murdered Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN. On March 10, 1969, Ray pleads guilty to murder and receives a 99 year sentence, cementing his name in history. The murder of Dr. King sparked riots and protests across the nation, and some argue set back the civil rights movement with the loss of one of the movement’s most notable figures. Three days after the guilty plea, Ray wrote the judge for a new trial professing his innocence (PBS, 2010). The years following and several lawyers later, Ray never got another day in court, but maintained his innocence.
FREDRICK DOUGLASS AND HARRIET JACOBS Slavery and its long brutalizing history. Deep, bloody gashes to an inch-wide or more whip and scarred. Cold with barley enough clothes to cover them in the winter or year round. Half-fed left to starve. Rape, murder, beaten on a daily basis to death.
Resilience in The Break The Break is a novel that has constant conflicts and issues occuring, from mental health issues to addictions and death to gangs, there is always conflict. Many of the characters find a way to deal with this conflict with various skills, one of the most occurring is their quality of resilience. Laura Vermette demonstrates all the seven C’s of resilience - competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping and control - in her book, The Break, through different characters and situations while showing how individuals would be unable to survive and grow without resilience.
In conclusion, both 13th and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass focus on the systematic oppression of black people in America. Douglass’s description of Aunt Hester’s whipping influenced DuVernay’s use of the montage of police brutality because both represented the physical and mental restraints that white authority had placed on black people. DuVernay’s documentary draws influence from Douglass’s narrative through similar scenes and emotions of horror for the conditions of black
“We are absorbed in an inescapable network of mutuality, combining a single apparel of destiny”. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and enthusiast who was an individual of the most prominent rulers in the civil rights campaign from 1955 until his slaying in 1968. Dr. King printed a letter to a group of clergymen illustrating his position for peaceable direct action in the text Dr. Ruler uses three rhetorical appeals to convince the ministers that his conduct was appropriate. Dr. King uses pathos initially of his report saying “while confined in this place in the Birmingham city Jail” his hard luck story was shown here proverb “confined” show that he feels trapped. Another example Dr. Ruler states “But since I feel you are men of real goodwill what your criticisms sincerely describe”.
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. A Brief History with Documents written by David Howard-Pitney is a great history book that gives us an entry into two important American thinkers and a tumultuous part of American history. This 207-pages book was published by Bedford/St. Martin’s in Boston, New York on February 20, 2004. David Howard-Pitney worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University in 1986, and that made him a specialist on American civil religion and African-American leaders ' thought and rhetoric (208). Another publication of Howard-Pitney is The African-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America.
“Pray not for your mom and pop, they’ve gone to heaven. Pray you can make it through this hell,” the often-forgotten civil rights leader, Reverend George W. Lee said at a conference about racial tensions in the south. Lee was not only a very important person to his community but also the entire civil rights movement in the United States that lasted from 1954-1968. Few documents exist on Lee and his life, so in order to inform people of these, it is necessary to discuss his upbringing, his political activism, and his assassination. George Lee grew up to be a very influential person in the south despite growing up in poverty and having an abusive stepfather.
Nevertheless, it can be said that his murder was most likely related to his work as a civil rights leader, who persistently pushed for the intolerance to end and for the indifference towards the hardships of the African-American community to halt. Yet another senseless act of intolerance that ended with blood, as mentioned by Wiesel, was the Cambodian
Thomas Jang Usso 101 Professor … [TITLE] The narrative of Fredrick Douglass is both powerful and pitiful. It gives a first-person perspective on the life of a slave laborer in both the rural south and the urban. Despite the horrible treatment, he was able to give himself an education with the help of those around him. By doing so he is able to read and think about the evils of slavery. Douglass’s narrative consists of the many difficulties a slave must endure, and reasons as to why slavery must be abolished.
The trauma that can come from witnessing or enduring such treatment for years can deeply affect and damage one’s mental health. In Fredrick Douglass’ autobiography, his overseer, Mr. Plummer, displays a bestial and perverted thirst for violence. He whips Douglass’ aunt with neither mercy nor sympathy and only stops when his exhaustion overcomes him. Douglass talks about the trauma that came from witnessing the subhuman act, saying “It was the first of a long series of such outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant. It struck me with awful force.
Surviving the extremes is a book written by Kenneth Kamler which provides six examples of people going to six different environments which shows how amazing the human bodies are and what they can withstand. Chapter three “Desert the Marathon of the Sands” is about a Mauro Prosperi an Italian police man who was in the Sahara Desert competing in an Ultra-Marathon known as Marathon des Sables or Marathon of the Sands in 1994 which is a 160 mile race through the Moroccan Desert annually. The race consisted of 137 competitors each with their own personal microenvironment which has a purpose of protecting the person 's body from the outside environment and a backpack carrying basic supplies. On the fourth day of the race Prosperi was in 7th place
When the National Federation of Afro-American Women, or NFAAW was founded in 1896, Tubman was the keynote speaker at its first meeting (Harriet Tubman and Women’s Rights). This group targeted young African American women to be more aware of their value as a person and as a woman. Sojourner Truth, a powerful poet and activist, was among the women who supported Tubman. Tubman believed in the equality of all people, black or white, male or female. Also, her experience as a slave in the south furthered her appeal to the women’s rights movement.
The Black Panther Party and Latino Solidarity The Black Panther Party (BPP) originally formed in Oakland in the year 1966, was funded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. It was a so-called self-defense organization. They were a group fighting racial oppression which had a unique way of fighting for equality and the end of discrimination within the systems. The BPP played an essential role in inspiring other racially oppressed groups to create similar organizations to fight against white racism.
