Klansville, USA

In this documentary, it talks about the Ku Klux Klan spreading all over the state of North Carolina at the heights of segregation. It had become one of the largest charters for the Ku Klux 

Klan in the United States at the time. Bob Jones had wanted his message of not wanting to integrate in North Carolina and had many events speaking his points on it. 

Jones was well known with the klan since his parents were both parts of it and influenced him to believe those ideas. He became the grand dragon of the klan in 1963. They had done a march on Washington to spread their word to everyone in the country while dawning those white robes and hoods. Some of the people interviewed for the documentary had believed that Bob did this because he really had nothing else doing for him in life, so he decided to take this path. 

The African Americans were standing up for themselves wanting their voices to be heard by the people. The Civil Rights movement was really big at the time with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking up for them. The members of the klan started doing some things to the African-Americans which turned into violence. They would torture them to death in many hurtful ways. 

Bob Jones wanted the people to know that he was in charge of his way of speaking at rallies. His perspective had caused many people to join him on the klan and be part of the charter in North Carolina.

Ku Klux Klan Reference 

EOTO Team 2 10/21/2020

In my team, we did the harm that was done to the African Americans during that time period. It had due to many deaths and tortures that were trauma onto them later on in life. Lynching was a major topic on the harm that was done to African Americans. It had led to many deaths in the south which was where most of the killings had happened. It turns out that white and black were both being lynched by people who believe they deserve punishment. 

Also, the Second Ku Klux Klan happened again, and they started to make some messages known to everyone about how they feel about African-Americans living in their country. This group was the one to dawn the white robes and hoods which became significant that’s still part of the Ku Klux Klan to this day. They did do some violent things to African Americans involving torturing them to death and killing them by the riverbed method. They weren't really into trouble with the law in this situation because the authorities were fine with it and let them keep doing it. 

The poll tax was another issue that the African Americans were dealing with since it was violating one of their rights which was the right to vote. It required them to pay a fee to vote or take a test to see if they could vote, which was a disadvantage for black people at the time very much so. They took this problem to court and showed that the states were violating their rights on the African Americans which caused them to change that policy on poll taxing. They changed it for federal elections mostly. 

Black History Timeline

EOTO Team 1 10/21/2020

This EOTO team had talked about the good things of the African Americans. They showed their information on a PowerPoint that did slides on the jazz age. The jazz music times were popular with everyone. 

They covered the NAACP who had fought for the rights of African Americans through the law system. Thurgood Marshall was involved in this before becoming supreme court justice on the Supreme Court. They had made their movement become very popular all over the United States.

The Harlem Renaissance had come into New York which caused a change in culture and the neighborhood of Harlem as well. They did it in art and literature, so it helped put them on the map in that way for their culture to become something to be part of. Their creativity has inspired many people today to do something different from everyone. 

The U.S. military had started to let in African-Americans as soldiers to be with the white soldiers during that time. The official integration didn’t start until June 1941 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt had ordered it. Some of them got the highest honors for their bravery and courage during the times of war. It showed changes that were going in the way of African Americans which was finally happening for them. It was making some standard for them along the way to changing history at this time of segregation. 

They had also brought about Jackie Robinson who changed the game of baseball by being the first colored player to player to play in a game. He led the way for African Americans to be able to play in Major League Baseball for the rest of the time. 

Harlem Renaissance

Brown v. Board of Education Mock Trial

In this trial, the people are arguing over the case of Brown v. Board of Education to see if colored children deserved to be in the white schools. The people on the side of Brown believed that African-Americans are still mistreated even after they developed the separate, but equal doctrine. Oliver Brown’s daughter was still denied to be in the white school which had violated the 14th amendment for his daughter. 

They had believed that children deserved to get to know the other race and would make the world a better place instead of being segregated. This keeps hurting African-American kids more and works on fixing certain things. 

While on the stateside, they think that segregation should keep on going, and don’t need to change anything. They want to keep it balanced with a good ratio that isn’t unbalanced for them which will make the white people upset that the black people are getting better treatment than them in certain ideals. It will lead to society crumbling in a bad way if this happens to allow less segregation in the states. Their opinion is pointing towards that the states should decide if they want to keep having segregation laws against African-Americans since it’s not a federal problem to them. 

It has wanted the African Americans to be held back during this time, and not to keep breaking through no more. The Board believed that it is following the laws even under the separate, but equal doctrine at this time. They are still arguing over this even after Plessy’ trial which has not gotten better nor made progress. This is mostly a state’s right issue not needing the federal government to get involved in this situation. The verdict had decided that the Board of Education had won the court case. 

Reference

Plessy Post Prompt

Justice Harlan wanted to speak out his dissenting opinion by showing that this was wrong for black people to deal with. Harlan thought that it was wrong for the law to take away the rights of the African Americans and that shouldn’t stand in their way. He was using the 14th amendment as evidence to show that the rules don’t fall in line with the amendment at one bit. It said in the amendment that no discrimination shall be made against them by law because of their color. 

He didn’t want to keep it to himself during that time, since he wanted to say his own opinion and not agree with the majority opinion of the other justices. He did make a good argument by having evidence to back up his claim and speaking facts on the topic. While the people in 1896 didn’t like that the Justice went against the majority opinion. They probably would have wanted him to be not justice anymore for them in that way. 

While in the time we live in now, I think people would have reacted differently saying that Justice Harlan is speaking up for the African Americans in a good way. He believed that the Jim Crow laws were wrong and holding back black people while white people get more freedom. It did lead to some changes after the trial’s verdict which helped black people to gain freedom.  Though there are still problems today in this country in discrimination that have gone in the past couple of months. 

Harlan's Great Dissent

EOTO Team 2

The EOTO team did the Reconstruction era which each member did a different topic to do research on and explain it to the class.  I found it interesting that the black codes were a way to limit African Americans to do things they were allowed to do since they are free. Though some of them were able to find loopholes which gave them a chance to vote, unlike others who couldn’t do it. 

It said that the 13th amendment didn’t really apply to the states in the south which is where the slaves were. It still held them back from being able to move forward in the Union at the time. President Johnson was really holding them by vetoing certain bills that were supposed to help African Americans after the end of the Civil War. Though Congress still let those bills become laws even Johnson vetoed which showed that Johnson wasn’t huge of ending slavery nor letting free black people have rights. 

This was going to take some time to get it on track for America to understand African Americans are now equals like them. The Ten Percent Plan helped out balancing the rights of the freed people who were from slavery at the time. Congress wanted to get the order for the Union when some of the southern states were rejoining the union at the time. I believe that African Americans should be treated right no matter what the situation is and not deny their rights at all.  

https://www.ushistory.org/us/35.asp

Plessy v. Ferguson

 

In the mock trial, the people on both teams had interesting ideas on how to handle the situation very much. Plessy v. Ferguson's trial talks about when Homer Plessy broke the law of boarding a first-class train cart since he was African-American. The defendant team had pointed out that the 14th amendment had been violated by this act of discrimination. 

In the state of Louisiana, they had talked about having fear towards African-Americans which do not want to have much violence happening. Ferguson thinks that this arrest doesn’t violate any of their rights and there are train carts for blacks and whites to sit in which it is how it is. The points they had used were saying it doesn’t take away any of their rights for them. 

The Louisiana law does violate everyone’s rights even the white people it shows that intent in the wording. This law can’t work well for society since it doesn’t make sense to have this way and be that way towards Homer Plessy who’s only ⅛ black which makes them considered a colored person even though he’s not a full-colored person. Even though he still broke the law and committed a crime which is wrongdoing. 

The team that had won the verdict was by the state who had stronger points, but mostly the court supported them in that way because in that time period. It did teach me some ideals that people believed made a difference to that trial. 

The Picture 

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson

Reconstruction America after the Civil War Part #1

The Reconstruction era had many interesting events that happened after the end of the Civil War. The slaves were able to get freedom though many of them had problems being able to support their families which caused some of the families to be split up. The white people would take in their children and put them to work as apprentices. The African American parents didn’t like this idea which made them upset, but it was the best for the children to be able to support. 

The black codes were initiated to limit African Americans do not have many rights, so they were still held back. These laws started to cause some black people to move away so that those codes don’t apply them. They had to move to the city to get an opportunity to get a job and a better life for their family. Though the city got more crowded which made it difficult for them to get some work done. 

President Johnson didn’t think that African Americans were always gonna be slaves no matter what. Congress had to start to reorganize the South to make sure they follow the laws and since they ratified the amendment. They had told that Congress is in charge now not the Confederate anymore so that everything can run smoothly for them. Some white people were supporting the rights of the African Americans and helped out some former slaves to get to a better place. The 14th amendment was passed which helped make progress. 

Reconstruction Picture

Reconstruction America After Civil War Part #1

Post #7

The public and private rights have seemed to change over the years and have loopholes in them. The civil rights acts have had some interesting consequences along the way when making them become bills. It’s that people don’t get it and what is going on behind the scenes of the process. 

There are certain problems with this amendment. While they are trying to explain to the others about the problems of certain things going to happen very much so. The Reconstruction Era was a turning point in history for America within the involvement of slavery going on still. It had to make some progress even there wasn’t going any more discrimination against African Americans. 

The civil rights acts were being passed still, but the white people were able to find loopholes to make sure the black people can’t have those rights. They started to use Jim Crow laws which made the situation get out of hand and upset the African Americans. It made them have the idea of believing that white people will never treat them right. As they see this going on until they will be making changes soon. 

While it is taking their time to get things moving along the way so that everyone can be equal in each other. Though the rights have gotten there now in the time period we are living in while it took some time in the 19th century. They helped change America for the better, and it became a better place for some time till the 20th century came along. 

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