Video on Shelby Foote

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Civil War or The War of Northern Aggression

Civil War Or The War of Northern Aggression

     1. Were Southern politicians more or less likely to own slaves than other white Southerners?
They were more likely because of the presents in the table above. Which states that 38% of all white southern family's own slaves and 68% state legislators own slaves. This shows that they are more likely to own slaves. 
    2. Were higher level politicians more likely to own slaves than other politicians?
They were less likely to own slaves. Out of all the southern Country officials only 53% owned slaves. But 68% of state legislators own slaves.  
    3. What do these facts suggest to you about the nature of the Southern political system?
   That the lower you were on the political rank the more slaves you had.
    4. How uniform were the proportion of slaves in the population and the proportion of whites          owning slave across the South?
The slave population was high compared to the owner ship in the Initial states to secede. Then it was almost even for States seceding latter, and the population was less then the ownership in the Remained in Unions.

    5.Was there a relationship between the number of slaves in a state's population and whether                   and when it seceded from the Union?
     Yes, in the states population was almost even in the middle section. In some states it was even and some it was pretty close to even.
    6. What material advantages did the North possess on the eve of the Civil War?
      The North had a lot over the south. The North had over double of Railroads, farm acres, workers, output, and Factories were through the roof compared to the south.
    7. Do you think material advantages are decisive in the outcome of wars? Why or why not?
     Yes and no I think that having material advantages are a decisive in the outcome of a war as long as you have the people to back up the factories or work the land to make money. I think this because if you have money or the right materials to fund the war then yeah you going to win but no because if you don't have the men to use your materials and to work you land to get more items or money to fund the war then whats the point of having so much stuff without the man power you wont win.
    8. Why did troop strength peak in 1863?
Can Not Be Determined from giving information from graphs.
    9. Do you think that the differences in troop strength were responsible for the war's                              outcome?
Yes, I think that the more troops that they had the more likely to win.
    10. How does the cost of the Civil War--in casualties and expense--compare to the cost of                  other American wars?
The American Wars had less causalities added all together then the Civil war. But the American wars cost a lot more then the Civil war. The Civil war was cheaper then wars to day. 
    11. Why do you think that the Civil War was so lethal?
I think the Civil war was so lethal because people wanted to have slaves and wanted what they wanted and would fight till the death for it. But more of all it was lethal because it was the state against state. And the country fighting itself.
    12. What was the radical Republican program for reconstructing the Union?
To take land of people that had over 200 acres or is worth more the $10,000. Then give 40 acres to every male freedman.
    13. What were the goals of the radical Republican program?
The goal was to pay debt and free people. "The property of the rebels shall pay our national debt, and indemnify freedmen and loyal sufferers."
    14. Why was the program unacceptable to President Andrew Johnson?
He said that they wanting to have one person watch over a town is absolute monarch and that he dose not want to end slavery but to degrade it.
    15. Why do you think the North failed to follow through with policies that would have secured           the rights and economic status of the freedmen?
    They failed to follow through because they didn't have  as many people as the south did also they were trying to take land that was not there's. The main reason was that people didn't want there land taken away so they fought back and the plan failed.  
    16. What were the major political and social achievements of Reconstruction?
    The Major reconstruction was blacks to not be slaves and be free.

local history Q-4

For my local history I want to create a video using the information about world war 2 or the great depression. In the video I want to use sound like clips of vieo and still images.

Civil War

Civil War

1.  Use evidence to describe the economic impact of casino ownership and gambling on Native American tribes.

    Most Indian's are poor and the ones that aren't own casinos. The ones that own casinos make money on gambling.  "Less than a quarter of America's 557 Indian tribes own casinos, and only 48 tribes earn more than $10 million a year on gaming." The economic impact is that the Indians had to conform and build a casino just to live a normal life. The ones that live on reserve get sick and are unemployed. Indians that "live on reservations, have the highest rates of poverty, unemployment and disease of any ethnic group in America."

2.  What is the most significant problem of trying to understand the condition of the modern Native American population?

America "generalize about 2 million people who belong to more than 500 different tribes, each with its own history, each living in different circumstances -- peoples as varied as the Navajo of the Southwestern desert and the Lummi of Puget Sound." The biggest problem is that we put tribes in to one group(Indians), but they are different  from each other. Its like saying that a grape is a orange just because they are fruits.

3.  In what ways are Native Americans a unique minority group in the United States?  Do these reasons seem justified?

"They constitute the only minority group in America that has signed peace treaties with the U.S. government, the only ethnic group with a government agency -- the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- specifically devoted to its well-being." They have there own Bureau in the United States Government, that helps there well being. They are the only ones that have signed a peace treaties with the United States. They are unique because they have all these things that other ethnic groups don't have. I think that this is justified because they were here first. I know that was a long time ago but the Chinese were here first and neither were the African people. So I think that the reasons seem justified.

4.  Please find 4 specific examples of the sorts of events generalized in this paragraph.  For each specific example, include a hyperlink to a website explaining the specific event, and a summary of that event.

1. Broken Treaties

This web site tells you how the Native Americans were forced to sigh the treaties and latter how the Americans broke the treaties.

2. Native Americans forced to live on Reserves

This web site talks about how the Indian land was taken from them and how the Indians were forced to live on reserves.

3. Dispatching their children to boarding schools hundreds of miles from home
This web site is a Indian lady telling her story of being sent to a boarding school.  In this place she was beaten and mistreated.

4. Increasing funding for the BIA and, in fiscal 1996

This web site is Federal history web site and talks about how they were going to use the money and why they wanted the money. It also talks about other financial events in federal history.

5.  What is meant by the phrase 'diseases of the poor'?  What is the relationship between economics and health implied by that phrase?

Diseases of the poor means that diseases the usually people with a low income get.  More to do with hygiene is what comes to my mind. "And Indians are far more liable to succumb to diseases associated with the poor -- four times as likely to die of alcoholism, three times as likely to die of tuberculosis, nearly twice as likely to die of diabetes." The relationship is this part is saying that people who are poor are more likely to get sick. Because they have no money to pay for a doctor to tell them to take this pill to get rid of like the chickenpox or a vaccination.

6.  Is John McCain correct in his assessment of the treatment of Native Americans?  Why?

Yes, because we took there home. Earlier  in this essay it stated that

"Over the last 150 years, the government has tried a series of conflicting ways of dealing with the natives of this continent -- making war on them, making treaties with them, breaking treaties with them, sending them to Oklahoma, forcing them onto reservations, forcing them off reservations" We treat them like dirt and then try to make up for it, then mess it all up again.

7.  Please define each of the following terms in the context of Native American policy:

• removal- Native Americans were pulled away form there home forcibly.
  
• allotment- Native Americans were put on a descanted piece of land called reserves.
  
• termination-  The Native Americans were taken out by the french.
  
• relocation- Native American reserves, moved to land.
  
• assimilation- The Native Americans were formed to be like the Americans and not who they were.
  
• self-determination- The Native Americans had to be motivated and determined to get money for the BIA.
  

8.  Finally, give a paragraph summary on what self determination means, and why it either is, or is not, the appropriate policy for Native American people with respect to the Federal government.

    Self determination is when you personally are determined to go do something that you want to do. Its like being motivated for something. You are pumped to do what has to be done and will do what ever you have to so that you can get or hit your goal. If the Native American people are determined to respect the Federal government then I think its appropriate. Even though the Federal Government has hurt the Indian Nations doesn't mean that they have to hate American. Its good that the Native Americans what to Respect a country that didn't want to respect them. The golden rule that every one is taught is treat others the way you want to be treated. So if the Native Americans want to have self determined to have respect when they have never been respected is the way to be. 

Venn Diagram

America

America's Tragedy 

 

   Theodore Roosevelt once said "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one". America  because of greed, a desire to control other country's, and a liking for war is imperialistic. However America seems imperialistic but improving equality of its citizens has made it a tragedy. America has willingly become a tragedy.

 

    America thinking that everything is theirs. "The Pacific is our ocean" (first article). Americans have this thought that everything is ours and no ones else. They fought for the Philippines because "The Philippines give us a base at the door of all the East" (first article). America had this mind set that we want what we want and we will get it no matter what. In reality the Americans just used the Philippines. Setting us up for the tragedy.

  

     America wanted to stop the revolts. America said that the Filipinos shot the first shot but Americans are the ones who did. Three years latter the revolts were ceased. A man said from the state of Washington "Our fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill 'niggers.' . . . This shooting human beings beats rabbit hunting all to pieces." America wanted to stop but the people were fighting for fun. America tried to help but ended up with "the idea prevailing that the Filipino as such was little better than a dog. . . . Our soldiers have pumped salt water into men to make them talk" Americans tried to help them but ended up hurting Filipinos and making them hate America more.

 

    America always solving conflicts by war. America just seined a treaty with Mexico but Europeans predicted "Mexico to easily defeat the United States in the Mexican war." (second article) Right after this war was over America went in to war with Spain over the Philippines. America asked for 200,000 volunteers because the army only consisted of 28,000 trained men. Volunteers had some trained men and mostly un-trained men. America had exhausted its people and its resource's. But to stop would show that we are weak so we kept fighting. America won but America only had the Philippines for a shot amount of time.

     America is founded on improving the equality of its citizens. The country of America has a Constitution and in that Constitution it gives its citizens rights. The right of speech; the right to have an equal vote in the government.  The Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." In America you can go to church and express your religion freely. If you were in China and you said I believe in Jesus you would get in serious trouble. America is all about improving equality of its citizens of everyone.

    In conclusion you can see that America was really a tragedy. America caused its own tragedy buy thinking everything is theirs, wanting to stop revolts, and fighting other country's too much. America is trying to help others when really they are the ones who need help the most. America is killing it self slowly just like the the tree in the book The Giving Tree. America is giving all it has and it will have nothing left but a spot on the map when they are done helping other country's.

Q-4 resarch peoject idea

I am going to find a oldish cook book and cook about 10 recipes from it ill say how hard it is to cook them the experience. How hard it was to find the indigents. I'll put all the information in a blog format. I'll will take a photo of them done and rate it on a 1-5 star scale. ANd say if they are enjoyable or not.

Research Project Q-3

http://sites.google.com/site/researchprojcet/

Audrey Raye and Kayla DeRaps

Map 2 silde show #2

Note: not all these notes on here are mine I did some copying and pasting

Slide show map #1

Assignment WW2 #3

Zinn Article Assignment #2

The Descision to Use Atomic Weapons
from

A People's War?
Howard Zinn

Still, the vast bulk of the American population was mobilized, in the army, and in civilian life, to fight the war, and the atmosphere of war enveloped more and more Americans. Public opinion polls show large majorities of soldiers favoring the draft for the postwar period. Hatred against the enemy, against the Japanese particularly, became widespread. Racism was clearly at work. Time magazine, reporting the battle of Iwo Jima, said: "The ordinary unreasoning Jap is ignorant. Perhaps he is human. Nothing .. . indicates it." ....
The bombing of Japanese cities continued the strategy of saturation bombing to destroy civilian morale; one nighttime fire-bombing of Tokyo took 80,000 lives. And then, on August 6, 1945, came the lone American plane in the sky over Hiroshima, dropping the first atomic bomb, leaving perhaps 100,000 Japanese dead, and tens of thousands more slowly dying from radiation poisoning. Twelve U.S. navy fliers in the Hiroshima city jail were killed in the bombing, a fact that the U.S. government has never officially acknowledged, according to historian Martin Sherwin (A World Destroyed). Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, with perhaps 50,000 killed.
The justification for these atrocities was that this would end the war quickly, making unnecessary an invasion of Japan.I think this is a opinion because he is saying that what the government was making unnecessary invasions of Japan. How does he know that they are unnecessary. I don't agree with he because the government was doing what was best at that time. -kayla deraps 2/26/10 1:28 PM Such an invasion would cost a huge number of lives, the government said-a million, according to Secretary of State Byrnes; half a million, Truman claimed was the figure given him by General George Marshall. (When the papers of the Manhattan Project-the project to build the atom bomb- were released years later, they showed that Marshall urged a warning to the Japanese about the bomb, so people could be removed and only military targets hit.) These estimates of invasion losses were not realistic, and seem to have been pulled out of the air to justify bombings which, as their effects became known, horrified more and more people. SO here he is saying his opinion about the number of "invasion losses" and how they were just pulled out of the air. This is opinion because he is like they pulled it out of the air he doesn't know that. But I do agree because if the numbers are not realistic then they are trying to hide something and trying cover up something like the bombings. -kayla deraps 2/26/10 1:34 PM Japan, by August 1945, was in desperate shape and ready to surrender. New York Times military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote, shortly after the war:

The enemy, in a military sense, was in a hopeless strategic position by the time the Potsdam demand for unconditional surrender was made on July 26.
Such then, was the situation when we wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Need we have done it? No one can, of course, be positive, but the answer is almost certainly negative.

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, set up by the War Department in 1944 to study the results of aerial attacks in the war, interviewed hundreds of Japanese civilian and military leaders after Japan surrendered, and reported just after the war:

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.

But could American leaders have known this in August 1945? The answer is, clearly, yes. The Japanese code had been broken, and Japan's messages were being intercepted. It was known the Japanese had instructed their ambassador in Moscow to work on peace negotiations with the Allies. Japanese leaders had begun talking of surrender a year before this, and the Emperor himself had begun to suggest, in June 1945, that alternatives to fighting to the end be considered. On July 13, Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo wired his ambassador in Moscow: "Unconditional surrender is the only obstacle to peace.. .." Martin Sherwin, after an exhaustive study of the relevant historical documents, concludes: "Having broken the Japanese code before the war, American Intelligence was able to-and did-relay this message to the President, but it had no effect whatever on efforts to bring the war to a conclusion." I think this is also opinon because he is saying that he didnt make and effort to stop the war. He doesnt know that and probbly never will because he wasn't the president at that time. I don't agree with him trying to make me as the reader think that the president at that time was trying to cause more problems. By not accepting the Japanese Surrender. -kayla deraps 2/26/10 1:41 PM

If only the Americans had not insisted on unconditional surrender- that is, if they were willing to accept one condition to the surrender, that the Emperor, a holy figure to the Japanese, remain in place-the Japanese would have agreed to stop the war.
Why did the United States not take that small step to save both American and Japanese lives? Was it because too much money and effort had been invested in the atomic bomb not to drop it? General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, described Truman as a man on a toboggan, the momentum too great to stop it. Or was it, as British scientist P. M. S. Blackett suggested (Fear, War, and the Bomb), that the United States was anxious to drop the bomb before the Russians entered the war against Japan?
The Russians had secretly agreed (they were officially not at war with Japan) they would come into the war ninety days after the end of the European war. That turned out to be May 8, and so, on August 8, the Russians were due to declare war on Japan, But by then the big bomb had been dropped, and the next day a second one would be dropped on Nagasaki; the Japanese would surrender to the United States, not the Russians, and the United States would be the occupier of postwar Japan. In other words, Blackett says, the dropping of the bomb was "the first major operation of the cold diplomatic war with Russia.. .." Blackett is supported by American historian Gar Alperovitz (Atomic Diplomacy), who notes a diary entry for July 28, 1945, by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, describing Secretary of State James F. Byrnes as "most anxious to get the Japanese affair over with before the Russians got in."
Truman had said, "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians." It was a preposterous statement. Those 100,000 killed in Hiroshima were almost all civilians.Here he is saying that Truman shouldn't have said that because most of the people who were killed were civilians. But this is an opinion because he is like this is "preposterous" He should have said that he lied. I agree with him because if the bomb really did kill 100,00 people and a lot of them were civilians then Truman indeed did lie. -kayla deraps 3/2/10 8:57 AM The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey said in its official report: "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets because of their concentration of activities and population."
The dropping of the second bomb on Nagasaki seems to have been scheduled in advance, and no one has ever been able to explain why it was dropped. Was it because this was a plutonium bomb whereas the Hiroshima bomb was a uranium bomb? Were the dead and irradiated of Nagasaki victims of a scientific experiment? Martin Shenvin says that among the Nagasaki dead were probably American prisoners of war. He notes a message of July 31 from Headquarters, U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces, Guam, to the War Department:

Reports prisoner of war sources, not verified by photos, give location of Allied prisoner of war camp one mile north of center of city of Nagasaki. Does this influence the choice of this target for initial Centerboard operation? Request immediate reply.

The reply: "Targets previously assigned for Centerboard remain unchanged." This isn't an opinion part but i just want to say wow. They new that Americans were in there and they chose to drop the bomb and kill Americans to. -kayla deraps 3/2/10 9:04 AM
True, the war then ended quickly. Italy had been defeated a year earlier. Germany had recently surrendered, crushed primarily by the armies of the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, aided by the Allied armies on the West. Now Japan surrendered.

Dave Taber WW2 Assignment #1

The Marines on Guadalcanal

DAVE TABER, 1st Raider Battalion

Dave Taber was one of "Horse Collar" Smith's communicators who fought bravely among Sweeney's men. Six of the seven men were casualties that night.

We were on top of the ridge near the command post. Major Bailey came up and made an eloquent speech. He said something like this: "All you fellows have buddies and friends that have been wounded and killed, and it will all be in vain if we lose the airfield. Now let's get out, hold the line, and save the airfield. If we lose the airfield, we're going to lose the island." That was about the gist of it. It was quite dramatic and got everybody moving. I thought to myself it was almost like something out of a movie.

I was with a close friend of mine, Ike Arnold. (Ike's name was really Herman Arnold, but I called him Ike.) We each had five or six grenades. We went out. I'm not sure what happened, but somehow we got separated from some of the other guys. In fact we were a little too extended, I guess. When the Japs attacked, we were throwing grenades. There was a lot of shooting going on, a lot of action: rifle fire, grenades moving so fast.

I also would have looked before I chucked my grenades. I would have also been like oh crap when the Japanese person was behind me. I would have done the same thing he did, turning around and shoot him because if it was him or the Japanese.  -kayla deraps 2/24/10 9:25 AM

If there was enough time, i would have looked before i threw a grenade, but sometimes there is not enough time during a battle. If I was thinking right, I would have turned around and tried shooting the Japanese guy. Brooke Randall 2/24/10 9:41 AM 


Anyway, we were throwing grenades down the ridge, and then all the sudden Ike talked to me. [Choking up, Taber said, "I'd rather not go through this," but then continued.] He called me Tabe. He said very calmly, "Tabe, I've been hit." I turned to him. He was off to my side a little, and I said, "Where?" He said, "In the throat." He no more than said that, and he was dead.

Second if my best friend had just died in front of my eyes i would have stopped and thought about it then left. I also would have been like this stinks and would have burred him or her. -kayla deraps 2/24/10 9:24 AM


 If my friend dies in front of my eyes, I would have been sad, but knew I had to keep going. Brook Randall2/24/10 9:38 AM
He must have been hit in the jugular vein or an artery. Blood just gushed out. I had my arm underneath him, across his back, and I lowered him down to the ground. [crying] There's nothing you could do. He was a very good friend of mine. I looked around, and I was all by myself.

I thought to myself that I better get back and make contact with the others. I didn't know whether to crawl back or walk back because there was danger both ways. We'd been told what to do in these cases. I acted without even thinking. I decided to stay on my feet. It was pitch dark. I was walking a little bit, and all the sudden I heard something behind me and along comes a grenade right through the air and the fuse is burning!

First if I had a grenade between my legs I would have booked it as fast as possible or I would have jumped to the side and covered my face.  -kayla deraps 2/24/10 9:22 AM

If I had a grenade between my legs, I would probably run, too if I was able to. -Brooke Randall 2/24/10 9:36 AM

Before I knew what I was doing, I fell on my face away from it. As I was going down, I turned to see where the grenade was falling; it fell in between my feet. I had sharpnel between my feet and legs. I was a little stunned but got up. I was in shock, and nothing was bothering me. I'm walking along slowly and heard a Japanese voice behind me and he was talking to me. He must have thought I was a Jap going up in front of him. I had a .03 rifle and I swung around and shot, and he dropped as I kept on going. I finally got back [to the CP], and one of the first people I ran into was Horse Collar Smith, who was wounded.

Assignment #3

The letter I sent:

Dear Mrs. Appleton,

I am doing a project in my history class and we are told to write a

e-mail to some one who was about 10 when former president Kennedy was

shot. What I know about the shooting was that Kennedy was riding in a open

top limousine, down the street in Dallas, Texas. They were riding along

and at 12:30pm he got shot. 3 shots were fired 1st one missed, 2end hit

him in the upper back which also hit the governor and 3rd caused a fist

size whole in his head. It is believed that Lee Harvey Oswald killed

Kennedy alone, using a rifle.

Lee Harvey Oswald propped up his rifle with 2 or 3 boxes. He committed

the crime from the 6th floor of a school book depository that he was

working at. He left the seen and killed a police officer. Then was later

found in movie theater. He was killed leaving a jail.

I would like to know what you remember about the assassination of

Kennedy. Did you think it was a lone gunman or conspiracy assassination.

How do you feel the murder impacted the country? Could you tell what you

remember about the assassination?

Thank you very

much,

Kayla DeRaps

Reply I Got:

Hi Kayla,
the Kennedy assasination was one of those signal moments that was so
shocking that one always remembers like a snapshot photo where you were
and what you were doing when you heard the news. I was in junior high at
the time changing up after gym class at the end of the day. Suddenly we
all heard a radio report broadcast over the intercom saying that Kennedy
had been shot and minutes later that he had been declared dead at the
hospital in Dallas. The idea that anyone would attempt to shoot our
president was so totally foreign that the news reports seemed
unbelievable. No president had been assasinated in living memory. Millions of us felt that we had had a relative murdered. The rumors and stories flew. It was hard to know what to believe. it was reassuring that the authorities captured the murderer, but the theory of a lone gunman did not make a lot of sense. I still do not know what to believe about the events leading up to that day. For me the world changed on that day. Suddenly public figures were fair game for gunmen who did not want to bother with a ballot box. In short order after John Kennedy was shot, Martin Luther King Junior was gunned down on a motel balcony, and Bobby Kennedy was murdered on a convention stage. Riots , marches and demonstrations became the order of the day. It was a long long time before trust and belief in normalcy were restored.
Mrs. Appleton

Assignment #2

Assignment #1--Cold War & Fear

To bomb your town click here.

The people that were alive and living during the Tsar Bomba were very afraid because they thought that they were going to get bombed at any time. Every night they were worrying if that would be the last night they laid there head on there pillow. OR that it would be the last night they would tuck there children in. Its all around them how they can get bombed like in the press and on T.V. Cartoons were made that said at any time the Souvet Union would bomb us. Former President Kendy said on T.V. that this is a serious topic. That we have plans and if they bomb us witch is a large possibility then we got a plan to get back at them. They also were afraid because the bomb took out a lot of area. Say if the bomb was dropped on Newport it would take out all the way to Burnham.

Local History Q-3

I was thinking about typing up a letter that my great grand mother gave me. The letter is about what she remembers about the Great depression. Maybe put it in to a video of some kind.

Research Project Q-3

I want to do my Research Project with Audrey Raye. We are going to talk about the Career Pathways and Warrior time. Also talk about how many people have aim, yahoo, Facebook, or Myspace.

Essay On E

Essay On Emmitt Till's Murder

      

    The president of the United States asked Emmitt Till's mother to close the casket. He was using his authority as president to have her close the casket. The sheriff wouldn't take in the men and he knew that the men had killed Emmitt Till but the boy killed was black so it didn't matter. The jury was all white and if those men killed a white man they would have found the killers guilty but they let them go because the boy killed was black. The jury, the President, the Sheriff let the men go because they killed a black boy but if he was white they would have been killed for sure.

    The violence in the case of Emmitt Till is racial. The fact that he whistled at a white girl wasn't why he was killed. He was killed because he was BLACK. Him being black was the reason for him being killed. Him whistling was just a cover up for killing a black boy. They felt like he should die because he was black so they killed him! It wasn't just one man that killed him it was a group. This was a racial crime. Individually he was killed because he whistled at the white woman. Institutionally it was because he was black and they wanted to show other    blacks that the whites are in charge. 

    Emmitt Tills Mother wants to keep it open as a statement.  She wants people to realize that racism needs to stop. She wanted to show the hate crime that had happened to her son. This will keep on happening if no one stands up against hate and what the white people were doing. That she didn't really hate them because it would make her just like them. She just wanted justice for all, black or white.

civil rights

 

 

Welcome,

I ask you friends do we need more violence? Do we need to treat them like they are treating us? No we do not. We don't need to return the violence they have given us.  We should follow Martian Luther King for he speaks the truth. We need a leader that wants to approach black equality in a non-violent way. The way that God says when they smack you turn the other cheek so they can smack you again. "But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matthew 5:39 We should do that of what he speaks of. We should do what he preaches about. We should follow Martin Luther King. People say that you can not have civil rights with a non-violent movement. Lets do the unspeakable and have a non-violent movement. Jesus died for the enemy with out a fight. Lets get our freedom with no violence. With no more hurt! With no more hate! With no more death.  Lets get out and do something about our freedom. Lets follow Martian Luther King, the man who follows GOD.  Malcolm X is wrong for wanting to hurt the whites. Its just going to make them hurt us more.

 

Local History

For my local History project I am going to take photos of the reconstruction of the Indian lake market and ask the owner 10 or 12 questions about the store and its history.