Freedom Riders Film Analysis

took many actions to achieve civil rights. One of the most famous protests was the Montgomery Bus Boycott which started because Rosa Parks got on a bus in Montgomery and she was asked to give up her seat for a white person and when she refused, she got arrested. (www.biography.com). After she was arrested, the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) met with Martin Luther King Jr. to talk about the bus boycott. The NAACP decided that Martin Luther King Jr. should be the leader of the civil rights movement because he was young, well-trained, and he had few enemies because he was new to the civil rights movement.

This serious action led to the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted more than a year. A few years later Martin Luther King Jr. stated his famous, “I had a Dream” speech. After those few years in 1957 the movement led to the establishment of the SCLC with Martin Luther as the leader of the organization (“Civil Rights Movement”). Even John F. Kennedy was being pushed for a new civil rights law.

“Buchanan, a Democrat who was morally opposed to slavery but believed it was protected by the U.S. Constitution, was elected”( Source #5)This quote explains how another president had the same mindset of Abraham but still couldn't officially end slavery. ”Taylor entered the White House at a time when the issue of slavery and its extension into the new western territories (including Texas) had caused a major rift between the North and South”(Source #7). This quote quote explains how other presidents made slavery worst. Although having different ideas than other presidents Abrahams’ assassination was unjustified because other American presidents did not make much changes or just made it worst. While Abraham Lincoln made on of the most important decisions by freeing the slaves.

On June 12, 1987, two years before the destruction of the Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan gave his speech Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate better known as Tear Down This Wall. As he spoke to the people of West Berlin, he also addressed the people of Northern America and even Eastern Europe through broadcasts across the world. Through masterfully crafted words and anecdotes describing the separation and rebuilding of both sides of Berlin, Regan leads the audience through an emotional journey finally bringing them to view the Berlin Wall as a symbol of captivity. Furthermore, he provides logical evidence to convince his audience that the wall should be demolished.

I Have A Dream For one hundred years, the negro community has lived under the repression of the majority of the white people. Negro rights had slowly become abolished and ignored for the benefit of the whites. But one brave African American decided to speak above it all, in one famous speech called “I have a dream”. Martin Luther King successfully uses figurative language because the complex metaphors serve to not only explain the injustices that negroes have gone through, but they touch on the white audiences patriotic tendencies from a nonviolent standpoint King’s use of elaborate extended metaphors is effective because it translates the many repeated complaints of black people who have been oppressed, for metaphors that express the same meanings in a fresh, profound way.

It just expresses how much King is against war in general, just like how “Letter from Birmingham Jail” expressed how people were discriminated because of their race. Rather than it being just about how war is bad, it was also directed for certain people, including Lyndon Johnson because of being so violent and being so commanding with his people. The speech clarifies how bad war is for the poor and how useless it is to send blacks to fight in Vietnam where back where they’re from, they don’t even have the necessities to survive. He said, “In 1957 when a group of us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our motto: 'To save the soul of America.’” This shows that his opposition to the war is affirmative and that his decision is not going to change any time soon.

There are several significant songs for the civil right movement of the 1960s in the movie Wattstax, but the song that caught my attention is “Lift Every Voice and Sing” sung by Kim Weston. According to several sources, the song was originally written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson, and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson in 1899. It was performed for the first time as a celebration of President Lincoln’s birthday on February 12, 1900 in Jacksonville by about five-hundred colored school children. The fact that it was chosen to be perform on President Lincoln’s birthday may have indicated its relation to civil rights and racial injustice since the president is often remember for his work for African American during the Civil War. According to the song creators, the children of Jacksonville kept singing it and taught it to other children.

Also important in Barnes discussion is that separate was finally proven unequal because the black school were given less government funding for books and transportation. I can conclude from reading this article what a huge victory for the black community that’s message was heard through all of America because of Thurgood Marshall’s judicial doings. Barnes, Richard L. Harvard Law & Policy Review. NC: Basic,2011.

From the title we get a dose of metaphorical meaning. He starts this poem of by saying “Liberty Needs Glasses” and giving the reader an idea that this poem may be on how liberty is is blind in the eyes of Tupac. Concrete details like “justice bumped into mutulu” and “ trippin on geronimo pratt” shows us readers that the blinded Mrs. Justice got the two African Americans [Mutulu Tupac’s stepfather, and Geronimo Tupac’s godfather] got very harsh sentences like Geronimo spending 27 years in prison and 8 of them being in solitary confinement. But when it came to Oliver and his crooked

It is important to use this novel to teach important issues, especially because it has always “elicited a poignant and strong emotional response… for its stirring portrayals of an era of racial inequality”

The Birmingham Campaign The Birmingham Campaign was the real beginning of the civil rights movement because? It is regarded as the first large- scale demonstration against segregation in the United States, the Campaign led the United states and Montgomery laws segregating buses to be unconstitutional, and the Birmingham Campaign ended with a victory, local officials agreed to remove “white Only” and “Black Only” signs. Segregation in the mid 1950’s was common and legally enforced throughout the America south. Birmingham, Alabama was a hotspot of black activism in disagreement to segregationist policies.

Plessy vs Ferguson was a controversial case which came up with the phrase "separate but equal. " The case started when Louisiana tried to establish a law that would segregate blacks and white on trains like many states had done. However the black community in New Orleans did not like it however the state legislature approved the law even though there were blacks in the legislature. In 1892 a man named Homer Plessy sat in the white compartment of a train and was kicked off the train by the conductor. Later, lawyer named Albion Tourgee argued that the law was unconstitutional and took it to Supreme Court where the Supreme Court rejected it and ruled in the favor of the law.

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice Raymond Arsenault Mr. Murray 374003 Raymond Arsenault had written a good book about the Freedom Riders and how it had all started to where it all ended. After reading the Abridged edition of the Freedom Riders, it provided myself an idea of what the main reason of the book was written for. In my readings, the book’s reason was to show how a small group with a big plan went beyond dangerous accusations to show the world how unconstitutional it was for interstate bus terminals to be color separated that needed to be addressed and drastic measures had to be taken for people, even the Kennedy administration, to make a change once and for all. It had all began when a group of thirteen

George Wallace being conservative and previous Democratic governor of Alabama well known for supporting segregation at University of Alabama did win few states outside of south during democratic presidential primaries against Johnson in 1964. Since it was impossible for him to get nominate as presidential candidate for Democratic party, he formed his own American Independent Party with his supporters in 1968 election. He criticized openly about authorities responsible for race riots. While the “Silent majority” were the Americans of both young and old ages who preferred order and stability and favored Republican candidate Richard Nixon. He was the one who lost presidential election of 1960 and came back with his famous speech of “Middle America”.

On the other hand, whites will get a neat side of the bus and the clean water fountain. Also, groups like the Klu Klux Klan were formed and terrorized and sometimes would kill blacks. This is still the same as before the Civil War because African Americans are still not accepted even after they got freedom. Discrimination against blacks continues to be a problem for decades to come, and even today. (American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights