The Civil Rights Movement In Warrior Don T Cry

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The civil right movement was one of the most defining and revolutionary time in our country. I was a movement of changing, it build of the struggle of African American for 100 years after the emancipation proclamation. African Americans in the south was still being treated unequally. They found themselves in a word of unfair treated, disenfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression. With this in mind assuming the role of a high school teacher come with great responsibility to educate my students about one of the most disgraceful time in our nation history. During the civil right movement segregation was one of the driving force hate towards African Americans. The little rock now kids and their experiences was is one of …show more content…

I will teach my students the power of not giving up on what they believe in. In this book Warrior Don’t Cry, we to not be afraid the resist the norm, if something is not right we need fight it and make it better. Melba and the other members of the Little Rock Nine was able to bring about change, they was able to shit the power of one group of people over another through resistance. Resistance don’t have to be violent, and can be peaceful. Melba grandma India teaches us all that you can get lot of things do with just passive resistance. Smiling in the face of your enemies at they tried to cause harm to you. Not only show them that you are strong enough to take anything they dish at you but also so you got character. Another lesson I will teach my students is being self-reliance. Melba and the other students had to rely on themselves to survive. They was force to go to school, surrounded by hostile and hateful people. They was also force to lose their friends from their old high school because their friends were afraid to be around them. The black students had to learn to rely more and more on themselves and not on the people around them like family and friends, because at the end of the day they had to protect

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