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Harpers Ferry Raid

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John Brown’s Speech to the Court
John Brown’s short raid of Harper’s Ferry had a large impact on the relations between the North and the South. On October 16, 1859, John Brown randomly raided Harper’s Ferry and attempted to arm and free slaves. Brown’s raid did not last more than 36 hours and ended up being unsuccessful. Unfortunately, in the end, Brown was hanged for his crimes. This caused problems between the North and the South and separated the North and South even more than before. People who lived in the North viewed Brown as a martyr for abolition. While the North saw the nonconformist as a hero, the South was outraged that people saw his destruction as heroism. This proved to the South that the North would use violence if necessary to end slavery and gave the South another excuse to want to secede from the United States. After the Harpers Ferry Raid, sectionalism in the United States became even more prevalent.
In the 1950s and 1960s, homophobia was much more common and harsh than it in in modern America. In Greenwich Village in New York City, a series of riots broke out at the Stonewall Inn between members of the LGBT community and police. Members of the LGBT community were upset with the mistreatment and oppression they faced. This is considered to be one of the first events to start the gay liberations and sparked the fight for equal rights in the LGBT community. These riots took place at a police raid at the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Inn, a well known safe haven for people on the LGBT spectrum. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was considered to be the martyr for the Stonewall riots. This started gay pride parades and every year across America gay pride parades take place at the end of June in commemoration of Stonewall.

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