New York Times article discusses the 2000 exonaration of a young African American man in the early 1900s, who was lynched after being falsely and unfairly accused and convicted by an all white jury of raping a Caucasian woman in Chattanooga.
This image is a picture of O.J. Simpson’s Friends’ Bronco. This was the car that was chased by police and was watched by millions of people who were tuned into the NBA finals on June 17, 1994. In the backseat was O.J. Simpson who was threatening to kill himself as a warrant had been issued for his arrest in the Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
This is a photo of James Lawson baptizing a child at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Memphis, TN. This church is where Lawson preached during the Civil Rights Movement.
Robert F. Williams and his spouse, Mabel Ola Robinson, accompanied by representatives from the Chinese Communist Party, participate in a march marking International Workers Day at the Beijing Working People’s Cultural Palace on May 1, 1967.
This is part of a newspaper article from 1959 published by the Asheville
Citizen-Times. It highlights the reality of the “Kissing Case” and challenges the factual details.
This is a picture of O.J. Simpson received his Heisman Trophy. He won This award during his senior year at the University of Southern California where he won by a record margin of 1750.
Chappelle made a skit where they would draft celebrities
of different races. An actor playing Tiger Woods got drafted first overall to
the blacks, and many said racial jokes and stereotypes about Tiger. The
Significance is to highlight the pop culture that views Tiger negatively.
Tiger Woods putter being put up for auction. This
putter symbolizes his race and career and everything that Tiger has been through and his hard working ethic.
Tiger was interviewed by TransWorld sports about his game, and about how he feels to be an African American athlete, Tiger said he feels a lot of pressure and feels the tension between him and other golfers. Places that this happens that he mentions are Texas, and Florida.
This image is a picture of O.J. Simpson trying on the bloody gloves that were used to murder Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Trying on the gloves and showing that they did not fit was a large part of the trial that would help to prove that he was not guilty of the murders.
This is a picture of O.J. Simpson where he appeared in the movie “The Naked Gun” A part of his acting career involved this movie where he plays the role of a bumbling, but well-meaning police officer named Det. Nordberg.
This is a picture of O.J. Simpson showing his involvement in a Hertz Rent-a-Car commercial. Often seen running through the airport and cradling his briefcase instead of a football, he was in many commercials for the Company.
This article that is also from “The Chattanooga News” and comes three years after the lynching on Ed Johnson. This article describes some of the outcomes of the Ed Johnson case, including the Sherrif Shipp case and the search for the men who unfairly shot Ed Johnson on the night of his lynching.
This is the newspaper article from local newspaper “The Chattanooga News” describing the outcome of the local trial. The author of the article (that is not shown on the article) shows how the public white opinion on this was almost all in favor of a hanging and how actually there was a plan for a structured hanging under the trial.
This transcription details the exchange at city hall between Mayor Ben West and 3000 protesters following the bombing of Z. Alexander Looby’s home. The protesters gathered primarily to express opposition to the segregation of Nashville’s lunch counters.
This is a transcription of Nash’s speech the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, where she cites her Catholic faith as an factor in her activism during and after the Nashville sit-ins.