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I feel the movie does a good job at following the details given about the bus boycott in primary sources. The instances of the car speeding incidence and the attitude of the police was well shown in this movie by the scene where Odessa advices Miriam to drive slow because of tickets and the scene where Odessa is kicked out of the park by the police. - Jonathan Bell | I feel the movie does a good job at following the details given about the bus boycott in primary sources. The instances of the car speeding incidence and the attitude of the police was well shown in this movie by the scene where Odessa advices Miriam to drive slow because of tickets and the scene where Odessa is kicked out of the park by the police. - Jonathan Bell | ||
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| + | The primary sources discuss the involvement of the NAACP in the bus boycott, how they organized everything. The movie did a great job of showing how big the movement was, how organized it was, and its impact on Burmingham, Alabama. Although the movie just focused on the bus boycott in the one town, I never got the impression of isolation. The scene where Odessa is in the car with Miriam, when she talks about the movement won't just stop at buses, how the fight will continue to other places, how they will even vote, eventually putting a African American in office, shows how important just this one battle was. And its true, the Civil Rights movement took baby steps to change America, first the schools, then the buses, then other areas of segregation, even though their eventual goal was to establish equality, they realized it was not going to be an overnight achievement - that every little battle counts. The movie shows this - how important every person was to the movement. ~Juliann | ||
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