revealed chilling accounts of discrimination, attempted murder, and violence against defenseless Blacks, which forced them to take arms to defend their properties, wives, daughters and sons against the barbarism of Southern white supremacists. Tyson’s analysis demonstrated the importance of the armed resistance or self-defense movement in the Civil Rights Movement. He also directs our attention to a troubling time in American history, exposing the hypocrisy of American political leaders, who while advocating
Moody’s Moodiness Coming of Age in Mississippi describes a span of nineteen years in the life of Anne Moody. Written during the 1960’s (a turbulent time of American history), a depiction of one girls struggle with racial inequality, a mentality of “being pissed on and being told it’s raining” prevalent in the hearts of many of her family and friends, and the destruction being rendered on society by the monster of prejudice. These ideas are enhanced by the fact the major themes of the book are
means of achieving public safety or lowering the crime rate. The proportion of the population imprisoned in a society is influenced mainly by a few things: crime rates, conviction rates, the tendency to give prison sentences rather than fines or community service, and the lengths of prison sentences. Some societies use
author struggling to find hope—or the presence of God—in light of atrocity and calls into question the church’s value in creating positive social change. In 1937, Johnson was asked by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) “to write an antilynching script…A Bill to Be Passed takes place over four scenes, moving back and forth from a small church in Mississippi to the halls of the U.S. Congress. The play opens in the church where the ‘Reverend Timothy Jackson’ is calling