to the people of his ethnicity as they were treated as second class citizens. Through the lenses of his young eyes, he witnessed the injustices Blacks of his hometown, Monroe, North Carolina were subjected to. The horror stories of white supremacists imposing fear, intimidating, and terrorizing Blacks shaped young Williams’ life and made him the force that white supremacists not just in Monroe but across the North Carolina needed to be reckoned with. Williams was a product of his era and was influenced
Topic: Critical analysis of “Private Violence” a documentary directed by Cynthia Hill. Submitted To: Sir Athar Farooq Submitted by: Imran Akbar Class: M.phil 2nd Introduction Private violence is an American documentary film in 2014 directed and produced by Cynthia Hill. The film focuses on the issue of domestic violence, as told through two survivors. Ultimately, the film centers on distributed logic commonly asked
Celia, a Slave, written by Melton McLaurin, who was previously a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, is a nonfiction book first published in 1991. It explores the trial and execution of Celia, who was a slave in Callaway County, Missouri. She would eventually kill and burn her master. It revolves around the history of slavery in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. While there are many historical events in the book to examine, McLaurin distinguishes the Missouri Compromise
tried to learn things about her hoping it will jog a memory. She had a few items that belonged to her mother buried out in the peach fields that her dad, T. Ray, farms on. One of the items was a picture of the Virgin Mary that said Tiburon, South Carolina, except this woman was colored, which Lily had never seen before. In Tiburon, Lily and Rosaleen found the same picture of the Black Mary as a label on a jar of honey. They found out that the honey was actually made by the Boatwright sisters in Tiburon