Week 2 Reflection on the south

My reflection on week two is dreadful, I have a lot of emotions towards this topic. From watching the video and reading the passages I see the ways that people go to take down another race making the American assumption to be very hard to believe. William T Sherman’s march lead 60,000 soldiers 285-miles from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia (Biography.com). Sherman’s March to the Sea frighten Georgia’s civilian’s into abandoning the Confederate cause. The soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they did steal food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back (Biography.com). After all that the negro slaves was promised some type of land. But in the passage titled “Overview of Reconstruction” it leads me to my point stated previously. Reason being in the passage it says “Immediately following the war, all-white Southern legislatures passed black codes which denied blacks the right to purchase or rent land.” (Digital History).

 Then the rise of the Jim Crow Law another sick way to make black people in those southern states suffer. The Jim Crow law started in 1965 and was adopted by 36 states in the US (history.com). The laws separated the colored from whites known as segregation. Around this time black people couldn’t eat, drink, talk, sit, or really even look at white person without outrageous punishment. As may of seem like a good deal of course colored people got the shitty end of the deal. The textbooks and bathrooms etc were horrible, in other words they treated the black people in that time era like the most hated disgusting animals. 

Making thing worst a terrorist group called the kkk reigning their terror on the black community. The kkk started in 1865, the group stood for the rebel against anything or anyone that wasn’t agreeing with the white power supremacist. The kkk shock the streets making it hard for people to live. The group plus the American Nazi party took violent actions towards the CWP. Death to the Klan march, organized by the CWP. This event had been preceded by inflammatory rhetoric from both sides. The CWP had originally came to Greensboro to support the workers' rights activism among mostly black industry workers in the area (Assael, Shaun, et al). The march was a part of that larger effort. The Greensboro city police department had an informant within the KKK and ANP group who notified them that the Klan was prepared for armed violence (Assael, Shaun, et al). This was sad incident was known as the Greensboro Massacre leaving four men dead and several black people dead and injured. People work so hard throughout that time fighting constantly to be successful yet we still get the bad end of the stick. Just reflecting that people are really capable of doing theses sad horrific things to another race making the American Assumptions very hard to believe. Don’t get me wrong hard work pay off, but that success will be personal. The success that needed is for the colored community not just black but every race to be successfully given a chance to make it and not be profiled and judged.

Assael, Shaun, et al. “The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right.” POLITICO Magazine, 3 Nov. 2019, www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/03/greensboro-massacre-white-nationalism-klan-229873.

Digital History, www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3096.

History.com Editors. “Jim Crow Laws.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 28 Feb. 2018, www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws.

“William Tecumseh Sherman.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 28 June 2019, www.biography.com/military-figure/william-tecumseh-sherman.