Question

Using evidence from the song and the sources you identified during the research you performed in Section 2 (“Research Question”), combine the information from two sources in at least 200 words to show that you understand the subject of your research and how the ideas in the sources relate to Dylan’s song. Include at least three important ideas that support your synthesis.

Answer 1

Answer:

The person who wrote the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll was Bob Dylan. The main incident in the song took place on February 9, 1963. The man in the song assaulted three hotel workers. Zantzinger was arrested and did not have a trial, but was put in jail. Hattie Carroll was a African-American woman who had between 9 and 13 children and only worked for the hotel on special occasions when they needed a larger staff. Carroll had high blood pressure which contributed to her death according to the autopsy. Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter on August 23, 1963.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer:

William Zantzinger was accused of taking the life of Hattie Carroll, charged with manslaughter, and the assault of two other employees working at the same bar.

Explanation:

Hattie Carroll was a middle-aged part-time barmaid working at Spinsters' Ball at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore. Mother of nine children (according to The Washington Post), she had hardened arteries, an enlarged heart, and high blood pressure. She had been struck on the shoulder by William Zantzinger with a toy cane. This impact, combined with a set of racial slurs by the perpetrator, led to her death by brain hemorrhage at the Mercy Hospital the following morning.

"William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll

With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger

At a Baltimore hotel society gathering"

Zantzinger had been initially accused of murder when she passed away. However, his charges were reduced to manslaughter due to Carroll's heart condition.

The whole incident caused major stirs in public media as the case was handled in a black versus white format. It had become the story of a rural aristocrat man showing black people their place, as if Zantzinger's drunken deeds at the bar represented a good treatment towards black people.

"William Zanzinger, who at twenty-four years

Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres

With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him

And high office relations in the politics of Maryland

Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders

And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was snarling"

When the sentence was being carried out, Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a Dream" speech was taking place in Washington, protesting in favor of civil rights for black people. This was an important social issue, particularly noticeable given Zantzinger's six-month sentence when charged with manslaughter and assault of three black people.

"In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel [...]

And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished

And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance

William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence"

Sources:

'A REGULAR OLD SOUTHERN MARYLAND BOY' , by By Peter Carlson .

Sunday, August 4, 1991; 9:34 AM (The Washington Post)

'Life after a lonesome death' , by Ian Frazier. Fri 25 Feb 2005 00.02 GMT (The Guardian)

"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", by Bob Dylan.