For this project, I decided to write a short story about the 1921 Tulsa Massacre because I wanted to spend the time learning more about it since it’s considered one of the deadliest and worst acts of racial violence in the history of the United States. I chose to write a short story giving a fictionalized account of the event because it challenged me to put myself in their shoes and understand the experiences that the Black people of Tulsa endured. Writing a story about a great tragedy such as this presents some important challenges and things I need to keep in mind. I needed to make sure that I didn’t sensationalize the events and maintained a strong sense of authenticity and respect, otherwise I would be doing a disservice to the people who …show more content…
It was precipitated by the arrest of 19-year-old Dick Rowland, who was being accused of assaulting a 17-year-old woman named Sarah Page.1 A crowd of white people formed at the courthouse jail demanding they hand him over with the intention of lynching Rowland. A group of militant Black men, with many of them being World War I veterans, arrived to try to protect Rowland but were dismissed by the sheriff. An altercation occurred when a white man tried to disarm one of the Black men which resulted in the gun firing, initiating the massacre.1 In the ensuing violence, 35 blocks of Greenwood were burned down.3 Approximately 1,470 homes were either burned to the ground or looted.1 Additionally, their local economy was devastated by the damage. Of the businesses destroyed, there were two dozen grocery stores, thirty-one restaurants, and four drugstores. There were an estimated 300 people who died.1 Hundreds of rioters were also deputized given weapons provided by the city.2 National Guardsmen also engaged in the riot.3 About 6,000 of Tulsa’s Black community were detained and temporarily relocated to internment camps.1 The city discarded the bodies in unmarked graves, and recently in 2020 a mass grave was discovered that is presumed to be from the Tulsa Massacre, though the results of the investigation haven’t been published to definitively determine that.4 The city has also
‘Fire in a canebrake’ is quite a scorcher by Laura Wexler and which focuses on the last mass lynching which occurred in the American Deep South, the one in the heartland of rural Georgia, precisely Walton County, Georgia on 25th July, 1946, less than a year after the Second World War. Wexler narrates the story of the four black sharecroppers who met their end ‘at the hand of person’s unknown’ when an undisclosed number of white men simply shot the blacks to death. The author concentrates on the way the evidence was collected in those eerie post war times and how the FBI was actually involved in the case, but how nothing came of their extensive investigations.
With only one hundred eighty-seven soldiers and fifteen civilians the Texans were able to hold off the two thousand Mexicans for thirteen days before the Mexican army finally defeated the small Texan force at the Alamo. Even though Texas had lost the Battle of the Alamo, this was just a stepping stone for Texas to be able to gain its independence from Mexico. The state of Texas came under Mexican control after Mexico acquired its freedom from Spain. (www.History.com) A man by the name of Moses Austin, an American business man, met with the Spanish authorities in San Antonio to convince them to allow three hundred Anglo-American families to start an American colony in Texas. After being granted permission to bring three hundred families into
The United States government initially celebrated the Battle at Wounded Knee as the final conflict between Native Americans and the United States military - after which the western frontier was considered safe for the incoming settlers. Over 20 medals were awarded to the soldiers for their valor on the battlefield. However, the understanding has changed regarding what actually took place at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890. The Hollywood version of the Battle of Wounded Knee accurately presents the case that the Battle at Wounded Knee was actually a massacre of the Sioux - the culminating act of betrayal and aggression carried out by the United States military,
Your writing style allowed for me to think about the story of Emmett Till in ways in which I didn’t think was imaginable.The way you merged fiction and nonfiction probably wouldn’t have work if this was another story.Because of the simple fact that we could make up a story about how a black person would get killed by a police officer tomorrow and tomorrow it would most likely happen.It may not be the story that is real but the reality of
On August 1, 1943, Harlem ?Boiled over,? according to NAACP leader Walter White (NY Times, 17). The start of the event was attributed to one, ?Private Robert Bandy, the 26-year-old Negro soldier?who is charged with attacking a white policeman who was arresting a Negro woman in a Harlem hotel? (New York Times, 17). Rumors soon spread that police officers had killed a black soldier who was trying to protect his mother. This caused a momentous outburst of rioting destroying much of Harlem. The statistics of the riot vary depending on the source, but around 500 persons were injured, five dead, 400-500 arrested, and property damage estimated at 500,000 to a million dollars. ...
America had experienced many riots prior to the Tulsa Race Riots, but the ones in Tulsa were definitely the bloodiest and most horrific (Hirsch 1). Many events led to the riots, but what truly started the madness would be the incident that occurred on Monday, May
One of the darkest times in American history was the conflict with the natives. A “war” fought with lies and brute force, the eviction and genocide of Native Americans still remains one of the most controversial topics when the subject of morality comes up. Perhaps one of the most egregious events to come of this atrocity was the Sand Creek Massacre. On the morning of November 29th, 1864, under the command of Colonel John Chivington, 700 members of the Colorado Volunteer Cavalry raped, looted, and killed the members of a Cheyenne tribe (Brown 86-94). Hearing the story of Sand Creek, one of the most horrific acts in American History, begs the question: Who were the savages?
On February 8th, 1968, shots were fired on a crowd of civil rights protesters and that day became known as one of the saddest days in South Carolina history. Many problems occurred in South Carolina, mostly between blacks and whites over issues about civil rights and segregation. These issues in South Carolina lasted many years and led to many events, protests, and even massacres that all resulted in sometimes very horrible outcomes but also bringing South Carolina one step further to getting rid of segregation. One horrible event that took place in the late 60’s was the Orangeburg Massacre that resulted in a few deaths and some injuries but also furthered integration in Orangeburg. In 1968, due to the conflict between civil rights protestors
On the 29th o April, 1977 Captain Cook, commander of a British fleet, landed on the eastern shore of Australia, in an attempt to claim the land under the name of Britain. The land was to be claimed by Britain as a land where the British government could send convicts; in an attempt to ease the struggle in the over flowing prisons. Upon Cooks arrival, he was ordered to follow three rules of claiming a foreign land. They were;
on a research trip for an article I am writing for the State Historical Society of Iowa. I hope to visit the home of a Robert Butler, a murderer and slavecatcher, who has featured prominently in months of my research since the house is owned by the Butler family, this will require me to interact with his descendants who have a very different perspective on how he should be remembered. I hope to apply the skills discussed in this class to writing a non-academic reflection on this journey. From this course, I know this essay will fail without my personal story. I have learned I must allow my experiences to shape this “journey of discovery,” to challenge my preconceived notions rather than adhere to
The columbine massacre the day where no one is safe in school or out of school. The columbine massacre is about two students named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris both seniors 17 years old both two weeks before graduating they killed 12 students, one teacher, and 21 injured to their shooting on April 20, 1999. Both Dylan and Eric were some believe they were bullied by the sport teams in their school so they planned to kill the people who bullied them and other mostly anyone who gets in their way but that wasn’t really why the FBI he said that there target was everyone no one in pacify we will not get in to more details now. Dylan and Eric were both intelligent boys with solid parents and a good home and both had brothers younger than them. They played soccer, baseball, and both enjoyed to work on computers. Both boys were thinking on commit suicide on 1997 but instead started to plan a massacre in 1998 a year before it happened. Then the two boys had got into some trouble for breaking into a van on January 30, 1998 trying to steal some fuses and wires for bombs for them to make, but they got caught in trouble. So the court put them in a program called the juvenile diversion program, but even if they were there they were still planning the massacre and the court also put Eric in some angry management classes and people believe it worked but it didn’t he just did it to look like it work and both boys made it look like they were really sorry but they weren’t. Dylan and Eric both really hated everyone in their school and the court as well after they got caught breaking in to that van that’s when they really started to plan the massacre more and that’s when Harris started he’s journals no one really knows way but they didn’t hate a hand...
The Chicago riot was the most serious of the multiple that happened during the Progressive Era. The riot started on July 27th after a seventeen year old African American, Eugene Williams, did not know what he was doing and obliviously crossed the boundary of a city beach. Consequently, a white man on the beach began stoning him. Williams, exhausted, could not get himself out of the water and eventually drowned. The police officer at the scene refused to listen to eyewitness accounts and restrained from arresting the white man. With this in mind, African Americans attacked the police officer. As word spread of the violence, and the accounts distorted themselves, almost all areas in the city, black and white neighborhoods, became informed. By Monday morning, everyone went to work and went about their business as usual, but on their way home, African Americans were pulled from trolleys and beaten, stabbed, and shot by white “ruffians”. Whites raided the black neighborhoods and shot people from their cars randomly, as well as threw rocks at their windows. In retaliation, African Americans mounted sniper ambushes and physically fought back. Despite the call to the Illinois militia to help the Chicago police on the fourth day, the rioting did not subside until the sixth day. Even then, thirty eight
Have you ever heard the term, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” or “You have drank the Kool-Aid.”? Well, ”Drinking the Kool-Aid” means you have done something that others have told you to do or did yourself. This saying comes from the cult society led by Reverend Jim Jones, named Jonestown. Jonestown was a small community in the jungle of Guyana, South America. After getting word of people coming to investigate the society, Jones had committed a mass suicide by poisoning Kool-Aid and giving it to the people of Jonestown.
There were many battles in the American-Indian War. The Sand Creek Massacre, Fetterman Massacre, The Red River War, The Battle of Little Bighorn, and the Battle of Wounded Knee were all a part of the Plains Indian Wars. These battles stretched from Northern Texas to Southern South Dakota. The five battles were fought for similar reasons. The U.S. continued to move West, and ignored traditional Native American heritage. The Native Americans became frustrated and attempted to reclaim their land. The Sand Creek Massacre and Fetterman Massacre showed the military power of the United States, and the Native American Tribes. The massacres are clear representations of how brutal the U.S. and Native Americans are during war. The Battle of
a) If I were Freud I would focus on Santiago’s conscious and unconscious the most. I would use my Freudian theoretical base to explain the issues and this case by breaking down Santiago’s unconscious (Id, Ego, and Superego). Santiago’s I d would be him being prescribed medication for pain but instead of taking them as prescribed, taking 25 at once and attempting suicide. Santiago’s