Civil Right Movement

I think that one big thing we learned during the civil rights movement was that you don't give up fighting for what you believe in. Martin Luther King Jr. never gave up on his fight for freedom. Even when he was in jail, he was still able to make speeches and continued his movement. In the video we watched , we saw the African American children being drowned by the fire hoses. Yet the children stood up and fought back. They even made it fun, dressing up in bathing suits like they were taunting their oppressors. I believe we also learned that violence doesn't help anything. The non-violent protests are the more peaceful way to go. During the non-violent protests of the Greensboro sit-ins, African American students sat quietly and peacefully at the lunch counters meant for white people of local restaurants. The protests lasted for days and finally the managers of the stores changed their racial lunch counter policies. Non -violent protests are the way to go, nobody is usually hurt, while violent protests, people are killed, beaten, and even lynched to death.

I believe in some places like schools, or on the internet, racism still exists. In schools, people become subconsciously segregated because some people choose to hang out with people of the same color, or it is possible in some schools that there are clubs that support institutional racism. Now, more that ever, there are many websites dedicated to racial supremacy, or race oppression. I personally believe there are many more white supremacy websites than any other out there. I can get why some people hate other races, but in a nation where people were killed over being a certain color, the others need to keep their feeling to themselves.

The idea of desegregation exists everywhere today. Places like schools where students of different color always interact with each other is an example of desegregation. African Americans and everyone else can vote together, in the same places as each other. They can use the same drinking faucets as everyone else, they can ride the bus anywhere they want to, African Americans can do whatever everyone else does.