Brother Outsider Assignment

Comparative Film Assignment: Brother Outsider In Brother Outsider, the audience is shown the AACRM movement way before Martin Luther King Junior’s “I Have A Dream Speech”. The man who got the movement to that point is Bayard Rustin. He was an advocate for nonviolent approach of protest, pronounced pacifist, and a member of the Communist Party. Also, he was an openly gay in a time that was extremely homophobic. His racial justice journey started in the 1940s, with the freedom ride through the south. Then, it continued into 1956 with the Montgomery bus boycott. Rustin was then seen at the 1960 Democratic Party Convention where he pushed for civil rights. After, in 1963, he organized the March on Washington, which is where the “I Have A Dream

It showed not only all of the victories the movement made but it bring to light all of the struggles the group and Bayard Rustin had as well. A tactic that is used in both Brother Outsider and AACRM is economic boycott. A specific example of an economic boycott in Brother Outsider was the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
This boycott first began after Bayard’s controversial arrest and he did not want to jeopardize the progress the movement has made. He then sacrificed himself of being the face of the movement by handing it off to Martin Luther King Jr. However, MLKJ had very little knowledge of nonviolent protest. In response to that, Bayard played a huge influential role by offering MLKJ “political agitation and organization” (Kates, "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin"). Since Rosa Parks was arrested, 42,000 African Americans boycotted the buses in Montgomery. This boycott induced the economic crippling of the city bus system. Police brutality emerged from the by harassing, intimidating, and arresting the leadership of the movement (Kates, "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard

It was a scare tactic that leads to people losing jobs and their creditability. It showed to others to believe in their cause or awful things would happen to you.
The frame in both Brother Outsider and Luders was economic deprivation. Economic deprivation is defined as not having the same amount of resources as those living around him or her.
The group’s focus in Brother Outsider was to gain equal, basic economic opportunities as the white population from the frame of economic deprivation. By boycotting the bus, it gave the city a lot of economic distress since those fares helped pay for other city functions. Instead of African Americans riding buses, they either walked or joined into the system of carpools that was formed.
The people of the movement all tried to play a part and help the boycotters in any way they could. There was also a group of African American taxi drivers that paid an equivalent fare to the one of a bus ride. African American churches across the nation also helped out by donating either new or used shoes. This helped out the boycotter who would rather walk or bike instead of abide by Jim Crow’s laws. The support of many people inside the city of Montgomery and out helped achieved the one of the first victories of the