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'Ida B. Wells-Bar brightent wrote a Red Record in 1895. This remarkable wo domain wrote this phrase during a critical snip in American History, a time when dispiriteds had civic rights, still they could non exercise those rights. The Civil Rights turn of events of 1875 was passed 20 years earlier and thrall was annuled 10 years prior to the Civil Rights Act, salve sterns could non exercise their rights. Despite the death threats on her aliveness, Ida B. Wells-Barnett insisted on writing this information to inform the world of the injustices that African-Americans confront in America during this era.\r\nIn this condition, the writer states that s revealherly pureness bulk, in essence, andchered blacks for what they ( snow- exsanguinouss) interpreted as â€Å" trespass”. White grey human being office staff, as the expression states, believed that it was out(predicate) for a voluntary alliance to exist amongst a light wo decamparm and a sloping man; the refore, the fact of an alliance is proof of force. Ida B. Wells-Barnett purge her disembodied spirit and livelihood in danger when she fixed to write an editorial in her idea, the Free Speech. Surprisingly, this paper was printed in my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, on May 21, 1892.\r\nThe one occasion that disturbs me is the port in which southern snowy men treated blacks in the south. It appalls me to learn that white men, in that era, would go to the extent of breaking into a penitentiary, purloin a black man, and then hang him for their definition of rape. The law was established so that every citizen in America could watch the right to a base(a) trial. However, in the South, the law undoubtedly meant vigour to the white man, especially when it came to dealing with librates that involved blacks.\r\nThe white man felt as if he was â€Å"The Law”. Blacks were freed from slavery in 1865 by the 13th amendment, yet they were still oppressed. Through the accomplis hments of the 14th amendment, blacks were given citizenship and the 15th amendment gave black males the right to vote. Blacks, in spite of all their political rights, still were not seen as an equal race, alone an inferior one by most southern whites. One of the few groups of people that showed compassion towards blacks was northern white women.\r\nThese women were not seen as aiding the situation to the white man, but as â€Å"nigger teachers”. I have that the southern white men knew the potential that the blacks had indoors them; therefore, in an attempt to keep them oppressed, the white man seek to intimidate the northern white women and assert that some black men were raping white women, when in fact the white women may have been attracted to the black man after discovering the intelligence and love he possessed. I am sure race assortment at that time was shunned; however, I do screw that it could have taken place.\r\nIt grieves me to learn that more people died unjustly and without a trial than people who were tried and convicted in a court of law in the United States during this era. Wells-Barnett states that she did not write her paper in the spirit of vindictiveness; nevertheless, it is hard to believe that a person of her status would not want to be vindictive. Plessy v. Ferguson These are excerpts from the trial Plessy vs. Ferguson. Throughout the course of my studies, I have learned that whites and blacks often participated in nonchalant activities during the 1870s and 1880s.\r\nBy 1883, this ended after the Supreme homage encouraged racial requisition by overturning the reconstruction legislation. Plessy was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black. In some southern states if a person had whatsoever black blood, they were considered black. at that placefore, a group of prominent Lawyers sought to test the constitutionality of a segregation law that was passed in Louisiana in 1890. In my opinion, the judge in this case was raci ally discriminatory and biased.\r\nI train that this case does not conflict with the 13th amendment; however, it does conflict with the 14th amendment. The pursuit statement was taken from this article, and I believe the fancy was faulty. â€Å"The object of the 14th amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the strong equality of the two races forwards the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as marvelous from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms disappointing to either.\r\nLaws permitting, and even requiring their separation in places where they are liable(p) to be brought into contact do not needs imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the expertness of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police condition …. ” This statement is, as far as I can tell, a s tatement that con dos racial inequality. There is no doubt that the 14th amendment guarantees all men equality before the law.\r\nOn the surface, it may not imply racial inferiority; nevertheless, it indicates that the law has no jurisdiction when it comes to social equality as debate to legal equality. Due to the outcome of this case, racial segregation was con maked by the Supreme Court, a decision that stood for the adjoining cubic decimeter years. Report on hurt human knee Massacre and the Decrease in Indian body politic area (1891) This article contains excerpts from an annual core written in December 1891.\r\nIt is not clear to me who the author of this message is; nevertheless, what is clear is that there were some major hostilities between the Sioux Indians and the white settlers of this era. The Sioux were upset about the reduction of the appropriation for rations and the delays attending the enactment of laws to enable the part of the national to perform the enga gements entered into with them. From this article and what I chthonicstand from the text, the Wounded Knee Massacre is one of the most fierce events that our history holds in its deep dark past.\r\nI derive why the Sioux warriors were excited by the teachings of their medicate men and main(prenominal)s. Hearing of an Indian messiah that would endower them with power to destroy the white man was more than bountiful to excite the Sioux. The Sioux expressed their excitement in a set of dances and rites known as the Ghost Dances. These dances do the white settlers who lived near the reservation uneasy; therefore, the soldiery was called in to protect the settlers. I believe if the white man had not begun to take arena from the autochthonic Americans, then this massacre would have not happened.\r\nThe article states that from March 4, 1889 to December 9, 1891, about 23,000,000 acres of Indian reservations was taken and added to the public domain, this is a harsh fact. The white man caused many Indians to leave their counsel of life and assimilate into the white mans society. It appalls me that the writer of this article had the assurance to call the Indian reservation â€Å"waste land”. I hope the interpretation of this statement mean that the land was existence wasted because it was not being used to the capacity in which the white man envisioned.\r\nIn closing, I believe the damage that was done to the Indians is irreversible. Tragedy at Wounded Knee (1890) This article tells of the horrifying story, the tragedy at Wounded Knee. The trouble, as stated by Red fog, started when the Indians first do treaties with political science. The signing of those treaties marked the end of the Indians old dash of life and customs; the white man was settling on their land and pushing the Indians out. Red Cloud states that the only way left for the Indians was to adopt the white mans way of life.\r\nThe Government promised them all the means inevitable for them to live on their land, yet the government never do good on all of the promises. On the other hand, the Indians were given tools and means to work their land; nevertheless, the few things they did receive helped a little but not enough to make a inconsistency in their lives. The Government did make an Indian Department; however, the Agents were more interested in self-gain, than helping the Indians. This made a bad situation worse. The Government took their (Indians) ponies under the promise that oxen and large horses would replace the ponies.\r\nIt seems to me that the Government did everything within its power to disrupt the Indians way of life and culture. The Government did everything from taking the Indians land to removing the â€Å"real chief”. Throughout history the United States government has done what ever it took for them to stay economically stable. No matter what the situation was, be it taking land and famished Indians or oppressing and enslaving Afr ican-Americans, this behavior has been a routine example of our Government.\r\nI thought African-Americans had it bad during this era, however, it seems that the Indians had it just as bad or worse. I cannot ima cotton gine the way the Indians felt when their land, traditions, customs, the way they hunted for food, their rituals, and all the things that they cute was taken; and to add to the sorrow, they were forced to assimilate into a white mans world. This had to be an awful feeling. From what I understand from the text, the Wounded Knee Massacre is one of the most tragic events that our history holds in its past.\r\nThe picture this article paints during this horrific event is one that I cannot dawn in my mind. The sound of machine gun fire and seeing dead bodies in the snow compensable its toll on the Indian. This event along with others resembling it has caused the Indian to question the very existence of his God. A Sharecrop Contract (1882) A sharecrop contract, in my op inion, contained many hands-off forms of slavery. Although the croppers had basic freedoms, they were still controlled by the property owner. This contracts tone seems to be a demanding one.\r\nThe croppers had no natural selection other than to agree with this contract. Disagreeing could have cost the cropper jail time. It seems that they had no other options, because all of them were former slaves and the only heap that the majority of them had was fieldwork; therefore, there was no better way to make a living than this. Nevertheless, this was not, by any means, a â€Å"great” way of life. The croppers were allowed to keep fractional of their crop, only if they complied with every demand in the contract.\r\nIf they did not comply, then they only received two-fifths of their crop. Crops in which they worked and sweated so hard to plant, cultivate, and harvest. The rest went to the landowner. After reading such a contract, I believe that most croppers were discouraged, yet they knew that was the only way for them to survive. In this particular contract, the landowner had a policy that not only include him receiving half of the crop, but the cropper had to feed his workers three times a day. Many other things in this contract disgust me.\r\nOne such thing is that the croppers could not sell anything until the landowner was paid, yet before a cropper could bring home his net gain; the landowner had taken an eighteenth of the croppers fifty percent. The reason for this is the landowner charged the cropper to gin and pack all of his (cropper) cotton. In addition, the cropper had to haul, process in cotton and corn stalks, clean out ditches, and repair fences. Above all the freedoms the sharecropper had, nothing could be more discouraging than the contracts that they were forced to sign. When I speak of force, I do not mean physical force.\r\nThese people had no other choice in the matter; this is why I judge it is passive slavery. Instead of being beaten, these croppers could now be thrown into jail for not complying with the sharecroppers contract. The life of a sharecropper can be best draw as a person trapped in a revolving door; trapped in a system that was never designed for the sharecropper to pay off economically stable, but to keep them economically touch-and-go and needy. They were trapped in a continuous attack to pay off their debts. Consequently, most sharecroppers never became wealthy.\r\n'