Black Death

Examples of Black Death in the following topics:

• The Black Death

  • The Black Death was an infamous pandemic of bubonic plague and one of the most devastating pandemics in human history.
  • When spring arrived, the Italian merchants fled on their ships, unknowingly carrying the Black Death.
  • The peak of the activity was during the Black Death.
  • The Black Death had a profound impact on art and literature.
  • Evaluate the impact of the Black Death on European society in the Middle Ages

• Faith in the Face of Suffering

  • In 1347 a deadly disease later known as the Black Death struck the Empire, and spread throughout Europe in the years 1348, 1349, and 1350.
  • The death toll was about 35 million people in total in Europe - about one-third of the population.
  • Discuss the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the political and social unrest of the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries.

• Funerary Art

  • Often, these elaborate shrines took a long time to complete-- long after an important individual's death.
  • In the late Middle Ages, influenced by the Black Death and devotional writers, explicit memento mori imagery of death in the forms of skulls or skeletons, or even decomposing corpses overrun with worms in the transi tomb, became common in northern Europe.
  • Initially, these were brightly colored and patterned, but later were often black.
  • Elsewhere, death masks were used in similar fashion.
  • "The Mirror of Death": Detail from a French Renaissance monument of 1547.

• Racial Tensions and Black Lives Matter

  • BLM regularly organizes protests around the deaths of black people in killings by law enforcement officers, as well as broader issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.
  • The movement began in 2013 with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin.
  • Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 police shooting deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City.
  • After national media focused on the tragedy, Zimmerman was eventually charged and tried in Martin's death.
  • The medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide.

• Military Segregation

  • Woodrow Wilson's policy of military segregation led to conflict, rioting, and the brutal sentencing of the all-black Twenty-Fourth U.S.
  • This kept the great majority of black people out of combat.
  • The all-black Twenty-Fourth U.S.
  • This led to clashes with local authorities, including an incident in which police beat a black soldier and set off a nighttime riot by 156 African-American troops resulting in the shooting deaths of two soldiers, four police officers, and nine civilians.
  • Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters," it was the first all-black regiment.

• Black Power

  • Black Power emphasized racial pride, the creation of political and social institutions against oppression, and advancement of black collective interests.
  • "Black Power" is a term used to refer to various ideologies associated with African Americans in the United States, emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests and advance black values.
  • Black Power meant a variety of things.
  • Racial riots broke out in the black community in cities from Boston to San Francisco following King's death.
  • The 1960s composed a decade not only of Black Power but also of Black Pride.

• Fighting for Liberty

  • At the time of the American Revolution, some blacks had already been enlisted as Minutemen.
  • In state navies, some blacks served as pilots, such as in South Carolina which had significant numbers of black pilots.
  • Revolutionary leaders began to be fearful of using blacks in the armed forces.
  • This order did not apply to blacks already serving in the army.
  • This picture depicts the death of African-American Crispus Attucks, who was believed to be the first person killed at the Boston Massacre.

• Jackie Robinson

  • Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player in the United States.
  • Baseball fans and players reacted to Robinson with everything from unbridled enthusiasm, evident in newspaper headlines, to wariness and open hostility, expressed in beanball pitches and death threats.
  • The Sporting News, which had opposed blacks in the major leagues, gave Robinson its first Rookie of the Year Award in 1947.
  • The Dodgers succeeded well with such black stars as Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe.
  • Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player in the United States

• The Aftermath of the War

  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation enabled blacks to join the Union Army, giving the Union an advantage, and helped end the Civil War.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African-Americans, both free blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army.
  • Slavery for the Confederacy's 3.5 million blacks effectively ended when Union armies arrived.
  • The war produced about 1,030,000 casualties (3% of the population), including about 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease.
  • The war accounted for roughly as many American deaths as all American deaths in other U.S. wars combined.

• Heat Death

  • The entropy of the universe is constantly increasing and is destined for thermodynamic equilibrium, called the heat death of the universe.
  • This is often called the heat death of the universe, and will mean the end of all activity.
  • Calculations of black holes suggest that entropy can easily continue for at least 10100 years.
  • Describe processes that lead to the heat death of the universe