Racial Wars, Incidents, and Leaders
Manuel Period 7
Community Leaders/ Essential Questions
Tragedy at Jasper
Martin Luther King Jr.
James Byrd Jr. and The Two Towns of Jasper
Jasper, Texas, was a town made of 40% black people. Though very little of the town was racist, they were still somewhat separated. The whites had their own community and so did the whites. Before the death of James Byrd there was a cemetery that was separated in to two parts by a fence. After his death the fence was taken down with the agreement of both African Americans and whites. When the trial of the three men that killed James Byrd came, the two men were the first people to get the death sentence for killing a black man in that town in 150 years.
James Brown
Important questions
1. The blacks and whites in the 1900's in some towns had there own what?
2. Schools in the 1900's used to be separated just like the people in the Jasper cemetery. What is this a sign off?
3. Roxbury was a neighborhood in Boston of only black people and another neighborhood also in Boston what does this show?
4. Many people were heart broken after the death of Martin Luther King. Many people said that the singer James Brown saved them. This is a sign of what?
5. White men shaking a black men's hand was considered what?