Greensboro Four Fraternity The Greensboro Four were a group of four young men who were black and teenagers during the mid-20th century towards the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. The four men were named Ezell Blair Jr, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond. Ezell was born on October 18th, 1941-present, he is currently 76. Frank was born on January 3rd, 1941 and died on January 9th, 2014, age 73, of respiratory
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On Monday, three students from San Jose State University were only charged with a misdemeanor offense after they were accused of putting a bike lock around a black student's neck. The students, all white males, reportedly also attempted to lock the black student in a closet and called him "three-fifths of a person." The jury concluded that these crimes, among other accusations of harassment from the students, were not hate crimes. According to Mercury News, the students in question were Joseph
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Rogue Robinson Convicted MAYCOMB, AL, July 10- Tom Robinson, 25, has been charged for rape by the Maycomb Court. The court case, which saw an unprecedentedly high turn-up rate, came to a close yesterday, with the jury delivering the guilty verdict after an hour-long jury debate. Witnesses Heck Tate, 40, Maycomb sheriff and Robert E. Lee ‘Bob’ Ewell, 50, the victim’s father, and Mayella Violet Ewell, 19, the victim, all testified against Robinson, giving similar versions of the events. Mayella
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It was Sunday, noon on June 2, 1981 a young, twenty-one-year-old black college football student from California State University at Long Beach was on his way to a coaching job at a local junior high school. The young man’s name was Ron Settles, he was a rising athletic star with a very promising career, major league football teams were looking a recruiting him. According to a March 1982 Boston Globe article, as Settles was on his way to the school, he was pulled over by Signal Hill Police, (Signal
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September 17th, 1849. On that night, a black slave and her two brothers escaped from the drudges of slavery. The girl had suffered greatly at the hands of her masters, even so much as suffering significant head injuries from violent beatings that handicapped her for life. Despite this, she was running. Her master, a man by the name of Brodess had died, and his wife, seeing her skills diminishing and finding her more and more useless, sought to sell her. So she ran. Although she successfully escaped
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It was a hot sunny Saturday in Mooresville, Alabama. There should have been an air of excitement because the War in Europe had ended and the boys were coming back. But the spirits of this small town were down, a usually happy town was in shambles. The second murder in the same amount of months had taken place. The chalk outline of the Honourable Judge Thompson still there despite the heavy rain. Judge Thompson was a good and fair judge. The last case he presided was the rape and murder of Christina
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Lynching of Leo frank was one of the most talk cases in United States. A Jewish man who was place in trial for raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl, who work for the national pencil company and he was her supervisor in the factory before his lynching. Mary Pagan a girl who had work twelve hours of shift came to pick her $1.20 to the pencil factor and it was believed Leo was the last person to see her alive. Furthermore, later that day when factor guard found her dead body in the cellar
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Facts: In Dodson v. Shrader, which took place in 1992, the plaintiff, Joseph Dodson, who at the time was sixteen years of age, purchased a pick-up truck from the defendant, Shrader. Nine months after Dodson purchased the truck; it began developing a mechanical problem that was eventually diagnosed as an internal problem with the engine. Dodson did not have the money to fix the problem so he continued to drive the truck until it eventually “blew up” a month later. After the truck “blew up”, Joseph
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A legal case causing uproar throughout the world, the scottsboro case. The scottsboro case is a case in which two young women (Ruby Bates and Victoria Price) are accusing nine young african-american men of rape. Olen Montgomery, the only literate person of the accused, is our client. We believe that Olen Montgomery is undoubtedly not guilty of rape. Admittedly, Olen Montgomery is guilty of riding a train without a ticket, however, he is not guilty of rape. According to the “Diagram” Olen Montgomery
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro trials both took place during the 1930’s. There was a lot of segregation. Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. Blacks were treated much worse than whites. Punishments to black people were much worse than for white people. The court case in To Kill a Mockingbird and in the Scottsboro Case, both took place in Alabama. In segregation was involved in Alabama. In To
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