ETO Reaction

  

ETO Presentations Reflection

I'm going to be discussing things I found interesting about the ETO presentations that each group discussed.

The Mary Turner Lynching Case

First one I'm going to discuss is the Mary Turner lynching case, which happened in Georgia, where I'm from. Believe it or not, I had not heard of this case before the group presented it in class. I heard briefly about it, but I didn't know it happened in Georgia or anything like that. And how blatantly disgusting and diabolical the whole thing was. It happened in 1918. She was pregnant with a child who did nothing wrong, and they still killed her in her child, disgusting.

Shirley Chisholm's Presidential Bid

But one of the more uplifting things I heard from the other group was the story of Shirley Chisholm, Who was the first African American woman to run for office in 1972 for the Democratic Party. The most interesting thing about her presidential bid was that she was running at a time when Civil Rights was very new, and the civil rights laws of legislation that was passed was recently signed into law.

And when the groups pointed that out, I thought to myself how incredibly Brave she was to run for office at that time. And she paid the way for people to serve in Congress as African-Americans, not because she wanted anything or received any votes, but the fact that she dared to do it. And it paved the way for somebody like Barack Obama, who was the first African American to be elected president. for bravery to run in that time.

Just makes me admire her so much, and the groups did a really good job discussing how she ran at a time period that was considered very polarized due to ongoing racism even though civil rights legislation was signed they were still struggles with it.