Negroes with GunsEssay Preview: Negroes with GunsReport this essayin June of 1961, the NAACP chapter of Monroe, North Carolina decided to picket the towns swimming pool that was forbidden to Negroes although they formed one quarter of the population
the blacks started the picket line and the picket line closed the pool. When the pool closed the racists decided to handle the matter in traditional southern style, they turned to violence
the pool remained closed but we continued the line and crowds of many hundreds would come to watch us and shout insults at the picketson June 23, Williams was driving when a heavy car came up from behind him and tried to force his car off the embankment and over a cliff with a 75 ft. drop off. The bumpers of the two cars were stuck and the cars had to pass right by a highway patrol station, which was a 35 mile and hour zone, but the car was pushing his at 70 miles per hour. Williams started blowing his horn hoping to attract the attention of the patrolmen, but when they saw they just lifted their hands and laughed. He was finally able to rock loose from the other cars bumper and make a sharp turn into a ditch. He went to the police about it, but they would not do anything because he was black. The police in Monroe never did anything to help blacks
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• The first black man to be prosecuted in the state for felony murder during the Reconstruction movement was Richard A. Felt, of San Antonio. In 1876, he was convicted for the first murder of John N. Felt in South Carolina.
• During his 1884 trial, President Andrew E. Ellis, at the request of the Southern Association of Chiefs of Police in Memphis, refused to talk to the judge about the investigation into Felt’s murder and refused the invitation of the prosecution. Felt was sentenced to three years behind bars the following year but the judge refused his request.
In 1887 he led the South with his own counsel and led a national effort in which several black policemen were prosecuted:
• in 1895, after the Mississippi war, the State of Missouri was abolished, while in 1892, the “Black Power Movement”, which was led by Mr. Joseph P. T. King, and held until 1893, led the movement in the United States with a similar focus. In 1893, under President James B. Garfield, the Black Power Movement began as a local action which gathered support in Missouri from all walks of life, civil rights, and the law. In 1899 the National Association of Secretaries of Internal Revenue decided to organize the South at a congress, which established the Southern Association of Chiefs of Police. Chicago and the University of Chicago (a large union of professional police officers) also joined the national organization under the name of Negro Police Officers’ Associations (MMOUI) . However, only 1% of the organization’s 1,818 members were black. The first “Black Power” movement in 1968 was led by Charles R. B. Lee, Jr. and Rev. William A. Jones, Jr. After the murder of Robert L. “Wycky” Osterman in 1963, the Black Power movement developed out of a movement created by the U.S. Civil Rights movement in the South under the leadership of “R” E. Gwynne and later, then under the leadership of Dr. N. E. Jenkins the NAACP formed the Movement Black Power and was later known as the “Black Power Army,” after J.N. Jenkins, Jr. It was a successful campaign in which the nation had a direct say on the actions and plans of police officers in the City of Charleston, North Carolina. The leaders of the Movement Black Power and the Civil Rights movement went head to head, with a combined combined force of nearly 200. At the national level in 1974 the nation’s Supreme Court decided that the Civil Rights Act should be applied without further interference. Later in the decade, black forces across the country led by NAACP President William E. Williams and other prominent black leaders organized a national organization dedicated to the black revolutionary movement and the abolition of race warfare and race violence.
A group called the “Black Power Organization,” developed as part of the effort to unite the nation’s young leaders, began using the word “black” to refer to members of such movements as the Movement Black Power.
In 1969 a national symposium was held to speak about racial issues and struggle amongst youth. In a series of discussions, such as the most recent, the “Black Power Rally” with African American Police Officers and the “Black Power
the picket lines continued and the whites were getting mad. One day a white person fired a pistol and started screaming, “kill the niggers”. The black people then showed the whites that they too were armed and then all of the sudden the police decided to help because they realized the whites were outnumbered and outarmed
the southeastern regional headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan was also in MonroeWilliams had been in the Marine Corps and when he got out he knew he wanted to join the NAACP, so he didThe Monroe branch of the NAACP got the reputation of being the most militant branch of the NAACPThe swimming pool they were fighting over had been built with federal funds, but yet negroes could not use itFirst the blacks had asked city official to build a pool in the negro community. the city officials said they couldnt comply with this request because it would be too expensive. Then they asked if two days out of each week the blacks could use the pool. The whites again said