Mississippi Burning
Murder is what it all boiled down to. In the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, three civil rights workers were viciously slaughtered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Mississippi Burning is a 1988 crime drama film depicting the events of the heinous crime.
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Development makes way in Detroit, as the community that once contained blacks and separated them from whites fades into the background, never to be recreated. Businesses that once provided a variety of needs for residents are torn down and replaced with streets without stoplights to create a highway. Milions of cars travel over the land that once served as the site of homes, cleaners, churches,...
Businesses line the streets in Black Bottom, a predominately black neighborhood. Hastings Street is alive with the rustle and bustle of suppling many needs for residents—ministry, food produce, restaurants, retail stores, music, and a “Right Hand Cleaners.” Cars galore use this main street in Detroit as a thoroughfare to get through this community to head to Downtown Detroit, but many community...
It was a crisp, cool morning in the Southeastern United States. The mist was settling, and the grass was saturated with dew. Springtime was beginning, just as it has begun every season. However, this year, something was different. A dark and mysterious presence had befallen the land. Cattle, chicken, and sheep died in large numbers. Sickness and disease spread through families across town, crippling...
“I mean what law can you pass to do anything about police power in the community of Birmingham? There is nothing we can do. The fact of the matter is that Birmingham is in worse shape than any other city in the United States and it’s been that way for a year and a half.” John F. Kennedy gave this statement on May 4, 1963 to twenty members of the organization, Americans...
On August 06, 1964, The New York Times reported an expression of “grief and hope” by Andrew Goodman’s family to the public at a news conference. Andrew Goodman, the dead civil rights worker killed near Philadelphia, Mississippi, had been working on a voter registration drive in Meridan, Mississippi. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodman, ensured the public their pain, although...
With the Angel of Mercy to guide and guard her, Captain Sally Tompkins gazes into the congregation of Saint James Episcopal Church located in Richmond, Virginia. This stained-glass window was installed on September 10, 1961 to honor Captain Tompkins for her extraordinary service to the Confederacy during the Civil War. The window features Captain Tompkins dressed in a conservative purple dress...
On March 17, 1951 the Sandspur—Rollins College’s student news publication, published an article called “Trustees Back Faculty Cuts.” The newspaper article reported on the responses of various groups at Rollins on their opinions on the faculty dismissals that were carried out by President Wagner and supported by the Board of Trustees. According to the article, Rollins and faculty...
In the early 1920’s feminism made a huge leap forward causing women to be viewed as people rather than property, but in the early 1960’s many women still felt more needed to be done. Before 1960, equality was just a thought being pondered by every woman in America, but now women felt they had to fight for equal rights. One of these woman was author Betty Friedan who through her writings changed...
Black Bottom has been known from many residents who resided there to be a tight-knit functional black community. They didn’t have the resources that white people had in Detroit, and in their community they created the resources they needed to survive. A former resident of Black Bottom, Sidney Barthwell Jr., recalled “Funeral homes, doctors — there were a dozen different black-owned hospitals,”...