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The salient examples showing the connection between the past and the present
"The Big Eddy Club" investigates the connections between the history of the South's
judicial system and the contemporary problems of racism, corruption, and the criminal justice
system. One more is slavery.
Chapter 2 of Rose's book (Rose 2014, p.153) argues that Gary may
have received a biased trial because of racism in Columbus His investigation led him to the
exclusive all-white Big Eddy Club in Columbus, where he found that the vast majority of the
victims were regulars. A 1912 execution of an African-American man who had been declared not
guilty of murder is compared to the Gary case. Rose found that the judge who presided over
Gary's first trial in 1984 was the son of the mob chief responsible for orchestrating the lynching.
The housing market collapse also has historical precedents. Fair and appropriate housing
for people of African descent has been an issue in the United States since their enslavement. This
is true despite the passage of several fair housing laws, policies, and regulations. Slaves were
confined to tiny, dilapidated, dusty homes that often had no running water, electricity, or bed.
Thousands of slaves sought refuge and freedom with Union soldiers during 1861-1865. The
United States was at war due to a long-standing disagreement between the North and the South
about governmental authority, economics, and states' rights surrounding slavery. At the close of
the nineteenth century, Rose demonstrates in chapter four any hope that blacks in Georgia may
have had during Reconstruction was abruptly extinguished. Slavery in its open form did not
come back. However, new kinds of discrimination in politics, culture, education, the economy,
and the law have evolved, and their effects are more severe than ever (Rose 2014, p.88).
To maintain African Americans' standard of living below that of White Americans, Rose
claims that racial dominance in the United States has been used to shape urban regions since the
Civil War (Rose 2014, p.328). After the Emancipation Proclamation, white rulers were even
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more determined to maintain racial dominance and the restrictive housing and residential
segregation policies.
Incomprehension is another common cause. White American psychiatrists during the
Reconstruction Era argued that former slaves would not thrive in a free society because their
minds could not cope psychologically with freedom and Black civil rights activists were
portrayed by these psychiatrists as violent, hostile, and paranoid because they threatened the
racist status quo. This is just the beginning of the difficulties associated with racism and trauma
in the medical field. Racism still significantly impacts African Americans' physical and mental
health, despite changes in its expression from the 1800s and the 1960s. Years before World War
I, when Georgia's attorneys were blaming lynching on the courts' legal technicalities rather than
the lynch mobs (Rose 2014, p.112), the norms that black students in 1950s Columbus needed to
learn about dealing with white people were created. The law's failure to regularly convict mass
killers created a background of less spectacular killings and attacks that rarely made the
headlines.
The authors of this study conclude that the compatibility between a historian and the
subjects he examines is essential to the practice of historical research. The first thing to
remember is that the facts of history are never presented to us in a "pure" form since they are
always filtered via the mind of the recorder and because they do not and cannot exist in a pure
form. Therefore, when picking up a history book, they should focus less on the information it
professes to deliver and more on the historian who wrote it. The interpretation, selection, and
organization of evidence help illuminate the relationship between the past and the present in
historical analysis. Subtle and sometimes unconscious modifications in the understanding and
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section and arrangement of facts occur through the activity of the other. This interaction involves
a two-way flow of time, as the historian lives in the present while the facts come from the past.
References
Rose, D. (2014).
The Big Eddy club: The stocking stranglings and southern justice
. New Press.