Challenges Of Desegregation In Film

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To overcome the challenges of desegregation, the coaches and players created a unified team by forcing them to bond with each other. They did this by forcing each teammate to sit on the bus, and room with another race, even though the team already segregated amongst themselves beforehand. Also, once they arrived to the camp, Coach Boone also made each teammate get to know the other race. All the members had their own assumptions on their partner’s homelife, but by forcing them to spend time, they were able to find their similarities.
For example, in the beginning of the movie, Gerry and Julius couldn’t stand each other. After spending time together at the camp, they became best friends by the end of the movie.
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