Selma director, Ava DuVernay did a great job filming and creating the characters that played a big part in this story. Marching alongside King was Andrew Young who was portrayed by Andre Holland. At the start of the film there was a pan of the camera over all the people that were marching, kneeling in front of the courthouse where they wanted to get their rights to vote. In the back was MLK , Andrew Young, and all the other important activists. This was showing that these activists were not marching alone and they had other people who wanted to fight for their freedom. With this pan it showed all these people that wanted to help and same as reality all these people wanted to fight and march. Newspapers reported, “The mayor and his auxiliary police, armed with shotguns, rifles, pistols and tear gas, form a roadblock at city limits to stop 150 African Americans from marching into town to the courthouse in a This lower angle gave him and everyone else the look of power. This angle showed that they managed to reach a higher level than everyone else. Andrew Young was standing with MLK while he was giving this amazing speech also giving him power along with their entire group. Here is what MLK had said while giving this speech in real life, “But today as I stand before you and think back over that great march, I can say, as Sister Pollard said—a seventy-year-old Negro woman who lived in this community during the bus boycott—and one day, she was asked while walking if she didn’t want to ride. And when she answered, "No," the person said, "Well, aren’t you tired?" And with her ungrammatical profundity, she said, "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested." (Yes, sir. All right) And in a real sense this afternoon, we can say that our feet are tired, (Yes, sir) but our souls are rested.” This goes right along with what had happened in the
Cesar Chavez uses morals and his audience fear of destruction to justify his stance on non-violent protests . Martin Luther King jr was an activist and civil rights leader that did not use violence to get his point across like many other activists at that time. Cesar Chavez wrote on the anniversary of his death explaining why using nonviolence is the way to advocate rights for those in need. His article was put in a religious organization that helped people who were in need of help. Cesar Chavez uses morals as a way to appeal to the religious side of his audience. Cesar Chavez also uses the fear of losing power to prove that doing nonviolent protests are the right way to spread his cause.
Born the son of a sharecropper, John Lewis saw segregation first hand while attending segregated public schools. While growing up in Pike County, Alabama, he was inspired by Civil Rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr. ultimately influencing him to join the Civil Rights Movement. As a young man he began to volunteer for Freedom Rides which was a movement by Civil Rights activists who protested segregation at interstate bus terminals. Lewis was one of the few individuals to launch the Freedom rides. Here, Lewis was beaten severely by angry mobs for sitting in seats saved for white riders. In this quote from John Lewis, he shares his fears in sacrificing his life for his work; “I thought I was going to die a few times.
People are marching in the streets, some holding signs, reading slogans that help defend the rights of the discriminated. This happened in both the African American Civil Rights Movement and in the Women’s Liberation movement. Two movements, one cause; to get equal rights. In the African American’s case, they were discriminated against due to their race. They were oppressed by the Jim Crow laws that were molding a unequal lifestyle for the blacks. Women’s Liberation, however, was about women who were forced to stay at home, because that is where people thought they belonged. Women were also granted unfair wages as compared to men. African Americans and Women were both fighting to get equal rights, which creates similarities and differences
The portrayal of the principles of ethnic relations was considered to be accurate for that time of the 1960's. Economic inequality was not something that was unusual for the African American culture. They were concentrated in the slums and ghettos were opportunity was not something they had a lot of. The other principles like discrimination, prejudice, and stereotypes like that portrayed in this movie was much like the real life that African Americans had to live in, and even still do just not as extreme as in the 60' and in years before. So as disturbing as it maybe this video did a good job at portraying the principles analyzed in this time frame.
The article begins by describing that, on the night of Sunday, March 7th, 1965, millions watched as their regularly scheduled television programs were interrupted with disturbing images of unarmed African American men and women being brutally assaulted by state troopers and mounted deputies dressed in full riot equipment with nightsticks in a cloud of teargas during a peaceful march from the small town of Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, the state capital, to protect the murder of an individual and the obstruction of their constitutional right to vote; the article provides an instance of this interruption by detailing that the broadcast of the movie “Judgement at Nuremberg” was interrupted on
Because everyone, including babies and old folk were marching, the audience would have felt compelled to join in. They were being positioned to feel that it was normal to protest.
“There’s so much material out there that’s unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is ‘urban’ or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that’s not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn’t move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial program” (Williams, Jesse). For so long African Americans have had to fight many battles to overcome oppression. Yet, African Americans are still fighting to overcome being harassed based on our color for so many years. It is very important for all of us to become more aware. For too long society has acted, as if the
The first social issue portrayed through the film is racial inequality. The audience witnesses the inequality in the film when justice is not properly served to the police officer who executed Oscar Grant. As shown through the film, the ind...
This shows us how white people thought of African Americans as inferior, and they just wanted to dominate the society making no place for other races to express themselves. Even though African Americans were citizens of the state of Mississippi they were still discriminated against. This documentary does a great job of showing us the suffering of these people in hopes to remind everyone, especially the government, to not make the same mistakes and discriminate against citizens no matter what their race is because this will only cause a division to our nation when everyone should be
The main just of the story was how blacks can be stereotyped into a group that does not allow them to do outdoor activities. Which is obviously not the case. The documentary was about a group of African Americans that decided to get together and make it to the top of a mountain which happened to be the tallest point in all of North America. It was a very interesting
A Reflection on Life: It Goes On! Sometimes life can be a little hectic, things may get entirely too difficult, and there will be people that may want to bring others down or see them fall. Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem, “A Speech to the Young,” is a refreshing reminder to simply stop worrying so much about negative people and to quit stressing over the future. She encourages her readers to just take life as it comes, and live in the present moment. We could all use this kind of positivity that Brooks seems to be encouraging her readers to do throughout her poem.
In Dr. Stein’s speech, she talked about the political system that is affecting minorities in the USA. She introduced herself by explain how 50% of the USA budget goes to the military. Additionally, she talked about the past elections where Donald Trump was elected president, but not because people wanted him, but becssue they were against the Hilary Clinton. 75% of the people in the USA wanted a new voice in the political system. Also, she talked about how the new president is not thinking about the minorities by brining fear to them, such as, the Muslim band where many people stood against the president to stop his decision. Also, people fight to end deportation. In fact, she talked how about how the Republican Party does not represent the United States people, it represents the billionaires, bankers, and rich people. Today, hundreds of people are being killed. It is important to save jobs for workers and communities, protect nature, and protect the health care. The most important
To go in depth, basically that the prison system that we see today is a cleverer way to keep people of color enslaved by having the rest of society believe that the government is trying to do what is right and put away “criminals”. While watching this documentary I started to compare it to previous documentaries I have seen. Some parts of the movie did meet my expectation. For example, in most documentaries they would show footage from years prior to the movie for the audience to get a visual picture of what the speaker was referring to. This movie also had somethings I did not expect. For instance, in this documentary there are several different people speaking about the same thing, but the director allowed someone with the opposite opinion or the person they referring to speak in the movie on their stance. Another example of how it superseded my expectations is when the director decided to show the words of the songs people wrote that were apart of these different times. In those songs, you can hear people pour their hearts out about the injustice that was taking place around
CW Holland made initial contact with Elias at Lyman Elementary. Present was Elias Speech Therapist Ms. DeYoung.
“America First” was a speech written and given by the then Republican presidential candidate Mr. Donald Trump. He delivered this speech to not only the group of supportive followers at his rally in Washington D.C., but also to those watching at home on their television. Mr. Trump’s speech was carefully crafted in a particular format that would outline his main topic points and ideas that he felt need to be addressed and managed more efficiently in order to bring America back to the great nation it was once known to be. These main ideas and problem topics included situations like over using and destroying our given resources, how our legally bonded partners that we defend are not paying for that