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Kurashigue argued that what contributed to the social and political factors that caused the 1967 Rebellion is the same factors that are being applied today. The policies and conditions that led to the 1967 Rebellion is very similar in what Black Detroiters are experiencing today through discrimination, urban renewal and police terror. Once you reflect on the events that led up to the Rebellion, there were two distinct perspectives from Whites and Blacks during this era. There was a conveying mix of sadness, tragedy, anger and regret that provide a deep sense of what White America felt it lost in the Detroit Rebellion of 1967. This deep sense of loss, in turn, informs what ex-Detroiters would like to bring back or take back. Today’s impulse …show more content…
This perspective is applicable and evident in how Whites and Blacks view the fate and issues pertaining to Detroit today. For tens of thousands of Whites the rebellion represented their worst nightmares come to life. While black Detroiters viewed it as an expression of black unity and a political declaration for their fair share of resources and power in the city and the nation. During class lectures we went over the difference between the terminologies associated with the 1967 Rebellion. A Revolution we defined as a purposeful act with clear goals to overthrow a government to obtain foods and jobs, or lower prices to seize the instruments of production or warfare. Rebellion is usually rare, overturned and caused by violence and reconstructed by principles and new leaders. The distinction between Whites referring to the events as a riot, indicates that their perception on why it occurred had misinterpreted the actions of Blacks. On the contrary, Blacks began to refer to the event as a Rebellion to indicate that it was not just a sporadic spur of the moment incident but it was a response to Blacks being fed up on the multitude of injustices that they …show more content…
The Detroit Police Department was referred to by some Blacks as “The Big Four”. The Big Four was vans and cars that had four officers in them that would stop and beat black males during police patrol. This terminology is still used today by some Blacks. The creation of the STRESS squad also evoked fear in Black Residents. When Coleman A. Young was elected into office, a primary concern on his agenda was the deconstruction of STRESS. Police units such as STRESS, and the Big Four created hostility, and furthered racial tension amongst Blacks and Whites in Detroit. Nonetheless, the 1965 Voting Rights Act allowed Blacks to have access to vote. Once Blacks obtained the right to vote, they began to push for Blacks in office. During our class discussion we covered how Black Power was not Black Power against white people, but about self determination and control over your community and institutions in your
The book also fits into films and documentaries watched that deal with segregation and events that affected blacks. For instance in Separate Pasts like the Great depression, the Promise land, and the Civil Rights Movement can all be tied into our course material. The Great Depression as what we talked about in class impacted the African American’s greatly leading them to having no work. In the book Mclaurin explains how Street’s dream were crushed due to the Great depression. Just like Street in the book he could be used as a prime example in lecture. Also like the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement played many aspects in this book. Mclaurin explains how such events in the book like the 1954 Supreme Court Decision was looked at an impacted. The Promise Land was also mentioned in the book as relating to African American escaping of racial tension. Although these are just some examples of events that can be compared to of what we went over in lecture, they can serve as a better understanding for students to get what actually happened and to grasp the situation more at hand. The book also fits into films and documentaries watched that deal with segregation and events that affected
In his book, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee, Robert James Norrell clearly points out that the Negro citizens of Tuskegee had begun to fight for their Civil Rights in 1870. By reading this book, one could infer that his purpose for writing it would be to inform his readers how the Negro Citizens of the City of Tuskegee gained their right as citizens in which they were entitled to enjoy. He particularly emphasized how they would demand for their right to vote as it is spelled out in the Constitution of this great nation. He also tells the story about power. How whites tried to keep control of their society and blacks kept seeking more independence. The subject of the book was how black votes could change the way of living in a community that was accustom to white supremacy. It focused on people who were a threat to whites being in control. Anybody who tried to change the way of living in the interests of whites of that time in the Tuskegee was considered a threat to their society.
Recently you have received a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. entitled “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” In Dr. King’s letter he illustrates the motives and reasoning for the extremist action of the Civil Rights movement throughout the 1960’s. In the course of Dr. King’s letter to you, he uses rhetorical questioning and logistical reasoning, imagery and metaphors, and many other rhetorical devices to broaden your perspectives. I am writing this analysis in hopes you might reconsider the current stance you have taken up regarding the issues at hand.
As it was stated in the book, many factors led up to the race riots of 1919. The single incident was a highpoint. It more or less triggered all of the actions and feelings that were preceded in the years leading up to the riot. It is amazing how the differences of a race can change in a few years. Also the importance of little factors that can lead up to becoming huge and having great implications on actions. For blacks and whites both the riot was just a built up accumulation of hostility that has been going on for quite some time. One thing can be said though that the Chicago incidents seem to be the more ruthless and aggressive when compared to others. It may have been because of the blacks’ resiliency not to lie down and to fight back. A lot of the time it causes even more hostility to brew when compared to a nonviolent approach. Nevertheless, the Chicago riots and the incidents that led up to it were monumental in status.
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
The Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Van Woodward, traces the history of race relations in the United States from the mid and late nineteenth century through the twentieth century. In doing so Woodward brings to light significant aspects of Reconstruction that remain unknown to many today. He argues that the races were not as separate many people believe until the Jim Crow laws. To set up such an argument, Woodward first outlines the relationship between Southern and Northern whites, and African Americans during the nineteenth century. He then breaks down the details of the injustice brought about by the Jim Crow laws, and outlines the transformation in American society from discrimination to Civil Rights. Woodward’s argument is very persuasive because he uses specific evidence to support his opinions and to connect his ideas. Considering the time period in which the book and its editions were written, it should be praised for its insight into and analysis of the most important social issue in American history.
The Civil War was fought over the “race problem,” to determine the place of African-Americans in America. The Union won the war and freed the slaves. However, when President Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, a hopeful promise for freedom from oppression and slavery for African-Americans, he refrained from announcing the decades of hardship that would follow to obtaining the new won “freedom”. Over the course of nearly a century, African-Americans would be deprived and face adversity to their rights. They faced something perhaps worse than slavery; plagued with the threat of being lynched or beat for walking at the wrong place at the wrong time. Despite the addition of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Bill of Rights, which were made to protect the citizenship of the African-American, thereby granting him the protection that each American citizen gained in the Constitution, there were no means to enforce these civil rights. People found ways to go around them, and thus took away the rights of African-Americans. In 1919, racial tensions between the black and white communities in Chicago erupted, causing a riot to start. This resulted from the animosity towards the growing black community of Chicago, which provided competition for housing and jobs. Mistrust between the police and black community in Chicago only lent violence as an answer to their problems, leading to a violent riot. James Baldwin, an essayist working for true civil rights for African-Americans, gives first-hand accounts of how black people were mistreated, and conveys how racial tensions built up antagonism in his essays “Notes of a Native Son,” and “Down at the Cross.”
The Tulsa race riot changed the course of American history by actively expressing African American views on white supremacy. Certainly I feel with the available facts in this research paper, that the whites were the aggressors for the events leading up to the Tulsa race riot and the start of the Tulsa race riot. African Americans were simply there to stand up against the white supremacy and to provide the African Americans Tulsa their freedom and equal justice.
Some say, history is the process by which people recall, lay claim to, and strive to understand. On that day in May 1963, Mississippi’s lay claim: Racism. Between 1882 and 1952 Mississippi was the home to 534 reported lynchings’ more than any other state in the nation (Mills, 1992, p. 18). Jim Crow Laws or ‘Black Codes’ allowed for the legalization of racism and enforced a ‘black way’ of life. Throughout the deep-south, especially in rural communities, segregation prevailed.... ...
According to Dr. Carl S. Taylor, the relationship between minority groups and police in the United States has historically been strained. Some cities have a deep and bitter history of bias and prejudice interwoven in their past relationships. The feeling in many communities today is that the system pits law enforcement as an occupying army versus the neighborhood. Dr. Taylor wrote about easing tensions between police and minorities, but stated “If there is any good news in the current situation, it is that the history of this strain has found the 1990’s ripe for change.
Shaskolsky, Leon. “The Negro Protest Movement- Revolt or Reform?.” Phylon 29 (1963): 156-166. JSTOR. U of Illinois Lib., Urbana. 11 Apr. 2004 .
...g with abolitionists countered the strong Southern economic and cultural forces driving slavery through education, free speech, and determination. This conflict did not overcome all the forces that existed, such as racism and ethnocentrism. For example, the mentality of white superiority was illustrated when the Supreme Court defined the doctrine of separate but equal in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. The pursuit of maximum equality and freedom for all Americans continues to be an ongoing struggle. Education and a revolutionary mindset are necessary in order to overcome the forces of racism, greed, and control that continue to exist and repress.
Around five in the morning an empty bottled crashed into the window of a police car and trash cans started going thru store windows. The pre-dawn chaos rapidly escalated into a destructive rebellion that engulfed the city of Detroit, Michigan. Governor Romney deployed the Michigan National Guard and President Johnson sent in federal troops to aid in bringing peace back to Detroit. For five days, chaos and fire consumed the city leaving forty-three people dead, millions of dollars of damage, and the use of over seventeen thousand law enforcement, guardsmen, and troops to restore order to the streets. The 1967 Detroit Riot is known as one of the bloodiest civil unrests in the United States. Many of the deaths in these five days were of young African-Americans and many of them were killed by law
Before this past August, I had no idea that the rebellion of ’67 ever even happened. But through a day camp I was helping to proctor, I visited the exhibits in the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Museum of African American History, and a picture of the events of that summer began to unfold in my mind. Furthermore, on the bus tour of Detroit that is one of my “passport events” this semester, the very first stop we
The Birmingham campaign was one of the most violent protests that happened in 1963, and it had the most many different consequences. The city of Birmingham was one of the most racist cities in the whole country, therefore it was the perfect place to do the Birmingham campaign and end the separate but equal laws. This essay will argue the causes for the Birmingham campaign, one of them being the ongoing discrimination towards black people, mainly in the South, and what were the most significant consequences of the campaign, some of them being white backlash, federal action and limited desegregation. Overall, this campaign was a success, it achieved equality and a better life for African Americans in the South, the life they deserve. An underlying and significant cause of the Birmingham campaign was the poor treatment of African Americans in the Southern States.