Local History

Me and Allie are going to interview her grandmother about the civil war letters and put text from the letters online if we can.

Research Project

Me and Allie are going to plan a wedding.

Speech- Malcom X

People in this country speak of rights and freedoms that are made for Americans. We do not get theese rights, therefore we are not truley Americans. We need to stand up for ourselves and prove that we are all worthy of these rights. We'll do whatever it takes to become equals. We will learn to fight if we have to. We will not take this anymore. We were not meant to be Americans. We were brought here against our will and we will not continue to be treated badly in a place we were never intended to be in the first place. There is no time to sit and wait for change. We will make change. Nationalsim is the best way we can do that. It has worked for other places and it can work for us. We will take action and prove to all these white people who are so against us that we won't stand for it any longer. We will prove that we deserve to be real American citizens!

Emmit Till

There was individual violence as well as institutional violence in the murder of Emmit Till. The individual violence is when the murderers take Emmit Till from his home, torture him and kill him. The institutional violence is shown in the trial. The jury, police and judge all showed racism toward black people. The verdict was that the murderers were innocent even though all of the evidence proved that they had killed Emmit Till. Emmit Till's mother was asked by several people, including the president of the United States to keep the casket closed at her son's funeral but she refused. She wanted to keep it open and have it photographed so that everyone could see what had been done to her son. It would start to make people angry with the racism in the country and more people would work to stop it. When she said "I don't have a minute to hate..." she meant that she can't waste her time hating the people who killed her son. She can spend her life trying to show the world the terrible things that are happening to black people and help do something about it.