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Roy Didn't Do It

During the early 6o’s United States was going through radical human rights and social changes. Civil right rallies were popping up around the country for equal treatment for African Americans. For example, four black students went to a Woolworth lunch counter at lunch counter and a white waitress would not serve them lunch. The students refused to leave. The same students sat the next whole day. By two days more than eighty black students were sitting at the Woolworth counter, by the end of the week 200 students were at the counter. Then within two weeks more sit in spread to eleven different cities. It cost Woolworth 150,000 loss. There were black activist leaders stirring up new ideas for a new way of life, like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. (www.answers.com). There were laws that were being changed like, the Gomilion v. Light foot this law states, “a state could not change their boundaries to eliminate African American residents, preventing them from voting in city elections in violation of the fifteenth amendment.”(www.law.jrank.org). Trying to change the way things have always been to something new and different has and will never be an easy task. Most people are scared to death to accept changes.
It was during this time that the city of Boston was experiencing their first serial killer. In the book, A Death in Belmont, written by Sebastian Junger, a serial killer is on the loose taking the lives of . . . read more.