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Robert Charles
Title: Robert Charles
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 847 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Robert Charles
A Black Sufferer Who Died for His Pride
Robert Charles, AKA Curtis Robertson of Copiah County, Mississippi was denied his rights as a human being and thus openede fire on a group of white supremacists in New Orleans, Louisiana in the year 1900, bringing about a racial riot that outraged thousands. Society in this time period was on the threshold of a segregatio n war, and Robert's actions on the 27th of July, represented his attempt …showed first 75 words of 847 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 847 total…Robert Charles, he brought about one of the biggest uprisings in quite some time, and was successful in attaining just what he needed to leave the world peacefully. "Charles' primary conviction was that his own life should continue as long as possible, consistent with dignity," (Hair 1976:2) and once his pride was forcibly taken away from him by the whites, he had to let them understand that the injustice of the world would not persist forever.
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