Eyes on the Prize

The main concept from this movie was to teach our generation, who wasnt alive for these horrible times, how life came to be for blacks in America. While I have learned alot about these different things in school that was back in fifth grade and to tell you the truth I almost forgot about the different things that have happened. This movie reminded me what people actually went through to gain as much equality as they have ever had. It was very interesting to me to see people getting arrested for sitting and basically asking to get arrested.

I think the ways blacks went about gaining equality needed to be done for their races future. The sit ins, Rosa Parks, and other non violent ways they did it was truley amazing. If I were black I would really look up to that generagtion of people because they were the ones that really took all of the burrden on themselves. Out of all of the non violent protests, the most intersesting one to me was the bus boycott. How they got the whole black community to boycott buses and walk everywhere for a year is beyond me. Martin Luther King was truley a great remodel for all young people. I pictured myself in their shoes watching King Jr. speak and there was no way after hearing him speak you could not obey his words. He was a great speaker and a great leader in Americas history. As you asked us to, put ourselves in their shoes would we be able to do those non violent protests? I do think that I would have been able to do those protests because like I said previously I would have been unable to say no to King Jr. Life as a black person back then would not have been fun to the least bit but if they did not do the things they did, it would be the same lifestyle as back then.

2 discussion questions:

1.) Was the whole black community, meaning in the norh and south, all protesting against white supremecy?
2.) Would the ways whites and blacks live together today be any different if these people would not have protested the ways they did?

I liked this movie and thought that I learned alot from it. The way the two white men killed Emmett Till and got off from the trial free was amazing. I wiould garentee if that happened today they would get life in jail. That is just the way life has changed from back then to now. I also think if the Emmett Till trial would not have turned out the way it did none of these protest would have followed. I liked this movie alot and would like to watch the rest of it if possible.