“Race in the United States Criminal Justice System PART III”
“Race in the United States Criminal Justice System PART III”
1955 Murder of Emmett Till[edit]
Emmett Till, 14-year-old African American boy in Mississippi was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His mother's insistence on an open-casket funeral led to the publishing of images of his mutilated body in many newspapers and magazines to showcase the scrutiny of the Mississippi criminal justice system in the 1950s and 1960s.
1960 Boynton v. Virginia
In the 1960 case of Boynton v. Virginia, the United States supreme court ruled that racial segregation in public interstate transportation facilities such as bus or train stations violates the Interstate Commerce Act.
1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
In 1963 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed, killing four African American girls and bringing attention to the need for increased civil rights protection in the United States Legislature. In 2002, nearly 40 years later, Bobby Frank Cherry was the last person brought to trial for the murder of the four girls.
1964 Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, s*x, or national origin in employment or public accommodations. It also overruled all state and local laws that mandated such discrimination.
1965 Watts Riot
In the 1965 riot in Watts, Los Angeles, an African American Neighborhood, 16,000 policemen, highway patrolmen, and National Guard troops were forced to restore order. The riot lasted for six days and resulted in property damages worth 40 million dollars. It started when an African American man by the name of Marquette Fry was pulled over by the police for suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol, after which tension grew between onlookers and police officers fusing the resulting violence.
1965 Voting Rights Act
In the Voting Rights Act of 1965, poll taxes, literacy tests, and other impediments formerly used to prevent African Americans from voting were prohibited.
In this Three part series of “Race in the United States Criminal Justice System,” I just wanted to highlight these findings in the law which our ancestors was subject too, right to the present day.
Please, feel free to make comments to any of these post. I feel that understanding the law and the history of the same, will make us more aware of our status here in Black In America.
1955 Murder of Emmett Till[edit]
Emmett Till, 14-year-old African American boy in Mississippi was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His mother's insistence on an open-casket funeral led to the publishing of images of his mutilated body in many newspapers and magazines to showcase the scrutiny of the Mississippi criminal justice system in the 1950s and 1960s.
1960 Boynton v. Virginia
In the 1960 case of Boynton v. Virginia, the United States supreme court ruled that racial segregation in public interstate transportation facilities such as bus or train stations violates the Interstate Commerce Act.
1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
In 1963 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed, killing four African American girls and bringing attention to the need for increased civil rights protection in the United States Legislature. In 2002, nearly 40 years later, Bobby Frank Cherry was the last person brought to trial for the murder of the four girls.
1964 Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, s*x, or national origin in employment or public accommodations. It also overruled all state and local laws that mandated such discrimination.
1965 Watts Riot
In the 1965 riot in Watts, Los Angeles, an African American Neighborhood, 16,000 policemen, highway patrolmen, and National Guard troops were forced to restore order. The riot lasted for six days and resulted in property damages worth 40 million dollars. It started when an African American man by the name of Marquette Fry was pulled over by the police for suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol, after which tension grew between onlookers and police officers fusing the resulting violence.
1965 Voting Rights Act
In the Voting Rights Act of 1965, poll taxes, literacy tests, and other impediments formerly used to prevent African Americans from voting were prohibited.
In this Three part series of “Race in the United States Criminal Justice System,” I just wanted to highlight these findings in the law which our ancestors was subject too, right to the present day.
Please, feel free to make comments to any of these post. I feel that understanding the law and the history of the same, will make us more aware of our status here in Black In America.
Deacon:
I bet when white people look back at their history, they can't believe that these things happened. We look back at these things and find it hard to believe it happened. The cruelty is still being dished out by the Justice system and they know that with body camera and cell phone videos, there isn't going to be a broom long enough or a carpet wide enough to sweep their devious acts away. I'm so glad we have cell phones and video cameras and other fancy gadgets to expose these acts of injustice with. Now the JUST US system will have to judge according to the real acts being performed because it is being televised live and in living color.