The Civil Rights Movement In The Warriors Don T Cry

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The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most defining and revolutionary times in our country. It was a movement of change, it was built off of the struggle of African Americans 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. African Americans in the South were still being treated unequally to white Americans at that time. They found themselves in a world of unfair treatment, disenfranchisement, segregation and other various forms of oppression. With this in mind, assuming the role of a high school teacher comes with great responsibility to educate my students about one of the most disgraceful times in our nation’s history. During the Civil Rights Movement, segregation was one of the driving forces of hate towards African Americans. The Little …show more content…

I will teach my students the power of not giving up on what they believe in. In this book “The Warriors Don’t Cry”, we are told not to be afraid and 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 were able to shift the power of one group of people over to another through resistance. Resistance doesn’t have to be violent, it can be peaceful. Melba’s Grandma India teaches us all that you can get a lot of things done with just passive resistance. Smiling in the face of your enemies as they try to cause harm to you. Not only shows them that you are strong enough to take anything they dish at you, but also so you have …show more content…

The struggle for racial equality was not just a physical conflict; what I learned from this book is the fact that in addition to the physical abuse, the far damaging abuse was mental. I learned through Melba’s character in the book that many of her external conflicts turned into internal ones. From all of the violence African Americans experience, they had to live their whole lives watching over their shoulders, always thinking someone is going to hurt them. Another perspective I got from this book is that if more black people had stood up, the change we want will be achieved so much faster, even though we suffer from a system that was meant to keep us down. Without realizing it, we help keep the system going by being afraid to fight it. What I found interesting was the fact that white people were afraid blacks would one day fight back, meanwhile blacks were so afraid to stand up over their lives. “The Warrior’s Don’t Cry” was a good book to read and I learned a lot from it about the pain and struggle of black

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