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African-American Civil Rights: Black History as a Weapon of Intellectual and Political Struggle

African-American Civil Rights: Black History as a Weapon of Intellectual and Political Struggle
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African-American Civil Rights: Conference at Morehouse School

African-American Civil Rights: Conference at Morehouse School
http://www.black-collegian.com/extracurricular/health/morehouse_conference_0301.htm

Conference at Morehouse School

In Maryland a 12-year old boy went to a hospital in Maryland's Prince Georges County. His name is Deamonte Driver. He was diagnozed for a tooth abscess and sinusitis. They gave him antibiotics and was send home. A couple of weeks later his mother buryied him. She couldn't pay $80 to have his tooth removed. The bacteria from his tooth traveled to his brain and killed him. Deamonte become another victum of the health disparities in this nation.
Many African-Americans die because the colored people have poorer health than the white people and have better chance to not have a health insurence. It is not fair to have people suffering because they are different color. To make this country better everyone must be equal.

Black History as a Weapon of Intellectual and Political Struggle

In 1974 Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, both leaders of Philadelphia's Black community these words were found in the black history documents were produced by African American. These self educated men wrote a historical and sociological treatise to counter published stereotypes of Blacks as disease-free exploiters of white Yellow Fever victims in that city's malaria epidemic of 1793. A widely read publication by whites asserted that Blacks were immune to Yellow Fever and guilty of grossly overcharging sick and dying whites for services rendered. By using what we now call history, sociology and statistics, these two men were brilliantly demolished
the immunity stereotype and the money gouging allegations.

Why The Till Case Still Matters

The mood was dark when FBI oficals dug up the body of Emmett Till. The fourteen year old was visiting Mississippi in the year 1955. Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot and dumped into the river. As soon as the story broke out nationally, black leaders wanted the Justice Department and the FBI to take action. To demand this was the right thing to do because White Southern sheriffs to arrest Whites suspected of racial murders. But in rare cases were whites arrested, all white-juries refused to convict them. In the trial the two men that killed Till were released from the trial.
This was an unfair trial. A lot of African-Americans were treated unfairly.