Washington D. C Race Riots DBQ

“I think white America made its biggest mistake when they killed Dr. King last night... He was the one man in our race who was trying to preach mercy and forgiveness for what the white man has done” (Stokely Carmichael) The Washington D.C Race Riots persisted from April 4th to April 8th of the year 1968, they commenced the night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. This attack was considered one of the enormous and most destructive and violent protests that D.C had even witnessed. There were vast amounts of looting, fires, and violence, which lead to 56 injuries and 274 arresters. (151, De Angelis) The irony of this event was that hundreds of people were injured and one man died due to the violence that occurred throughout these riots

The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways.It only applied to states that had seceded from the Union, therefore, slavery still lived on and was not abolished within the border states. Most important, the freedom it promised solely depended upon whether the Union military would be victorious in the Civil War. Although, the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually *put an end to* slavery; it was more used as a notion or a doctrine to grab the hearts of citizens and convince them that change was happening and the Nation was progressing. (Lincoln, Emancipation

Ferguson case was passed in 1896. “This decision approved segregation of the races as being consistent with the 14th amendment and formulated the doctrine of "separate but equal" facilities. It served as a legal basis for segregation in education. The case arose when one Homer A. Plessy, who was 7/8ths caucasian and 1/8th negro, was arrested for entering a railroad coach reserved for whites and refusing to sit in a segregated couch for negroes. The court, speaking through Justice Henry B Brown, found that these "separate but equal accommodations" satisfied the demands of the Fourteenth Amendment.” (Document 18 pg. 55 Hofstadter) The 14th amendment was made up of three parts: “The Citizenship Clause; granted citizenship to All persons born or naturalized in the United States, The Due Process Clause; declared that states may not deny any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law." , The Equal Protection Clause; said that a state may not deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws based on race, religion, gender, or other statuses.” (55, Document 18, Hofstadter) The NAACP was founded in 1909 to fight legal battles and obtain social justice for African Americans. “The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.” (Naacp