James Chaney

slaves slaves to being normal citizens of The United States of America. During this time lots of innocent people died for the things they legally should have and what their friends and family should have. Some of the courageous people are James Earl Chaney, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Medgar Evers (biography.com). One of the people I mentioned as a great example of dying for freedom is James Earl Chaney. Chaney was born in 1943 in Mississippi, which was still a segregated and racist area. James was introduced to the movement at a young age being a teenager and he then took part in the freedom rides across America to stop public transportation discrimination. Not long after that member of the Klu Klux Klan found him and savagely tore through the country to find him and when they did…

students who became a part of the Freedom Summer program. When he arrived in Ohio for training, Goodman immediately bonded with Michael Schwerner, a Jewish boy from Mississippi and his friend, James Earl Chaney, a black man from Meridian, Mississippi. The three men traveled to do Mississippi to do work together. In Mississippi, they were immediately targeted by the Ku Klux Klan group, The White Knights. The men were arrested one afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, a Klan sympathizer. When…

members. Such was the case with three Civil Rights Workers in 1964. James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goldman, and Michael Schwerner were three young Civil Rights workers who were working in Mississippi. Chaney was African-American and Goldman and Schwerner were White. They were investigating a racist crime and were riding in a car together when they were stopped and arrested. They disappeared and their bodies were not found for 44 days. It was discovered that they had been released into the…

they had also wanted to address the inadequate schools. Although they had the right to vote, through intimidation, lynching, poll taxes and literacy exams made it difficult for African American citizens to register and exercise their right to vote. One of the main leaders was Bob Moses. Along with Bob Moses were several organizers and volunteers such as Julian Bond, Gwendolyn Z. Simmer, Patti Miller, Rita Schwerner, Tracy Sugarman (who was an illustrater), and Charlie Cobb. Behind these leaders…

what had happened just a few decades prior in Europe under Hitler’s rule. She did not want to say she did nothing (Watson, 131). Motivation also came in the form of hate from the whites in Mississippi, if they were reacting in such a volatile way that meant they had to be doing something right for those oppressed. Volunteers looked forward to the day that MLK had spoken in his “I Have a Dream” speech, and when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act, that day seemed more in reach.…

evolved from the unnatural form of a man as described in Mary Shelley’s novel, into a man with a few scars. The original 1931 film Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, and the 1994 film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, directed by Kenneth Branagh, follows closely to Shelley’s work. In the 1931 film, the creature makes his first kill only after being provoked, only to continue killing either in misunderstanding, as in the case of drowning a little girl, or in revenge for being rejected by his…

In Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein she focuses on helping give the characters complex and developing personality traits. This is often expressed in the way the characters express their views about the world around them. She accomplished her goal by giving one of the most complex personalities to the monster itself. The monster starts out rather simpleminded however throughout the entire novel he develops to be a more educated and classy being. Nevertheless the monster is not ever truly happy…

The Babadook: Child 's Play Gone Wrong Is the monster in the closet or under the bed? Or is the monster really in the head? Finding a good horror movie can be challenging, due to the fact that most horror movies these days seem rather cliché or just don 't have an antagonist worth being scared over. Horror movies have lost their charm over the years as many horror movies seem too predicable or their script is badly written. The result of horror movies losing their charm is that people don’t…

The movie that I reviewed was It Follows, a movie written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. The movie follows Jay Height: a teenager who is being pursued by a strange entity that is trying to kill her. This entity can take the shape of any person, stranger or loved one, and was passed down to her after sleeping with her boyfriend. The only people who can see the entity are those who have, at some point, been cursed by it. Throughout the movie, the entity relentlessly follows Jay, however,…

Horror films have dramatically increased in popularity each year. Producers come out with a new horror film in theaters at least every two months, and the results are satisfying to the audience. Almost every horror film tries to come up with something more intense and dreadful. The Babadook was released in 2014 and is still quite mindboggling. Many people do not understand that not all horror films are full of murders and blood. The Babadook is a movie that tests the classifications of being a…