Difference between revisions of "328 2010--Week 12 Questions/Comments"
From McClurken Wiki
(→Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971) |
(→Civil Rights Activists, Rosa Parks and Virginia Foster Durr) |
||
| Line 34: | Line 34: | ||
I was a little surprised to hear that it wasn't the boycott that desegregated the Alabama bus system, but the Supreme Court Decision. Furr's writing almost makes it seem that the boycott and the court decision were parallel events. I know that the boycott put an economic hardship on the bus system, but now I realize that may have not been the only goal. I am sure public attention was just as important. Do you think that more people were willing to help the boycott knowing that there was a case going to the supreme court? Do you think the boycott helped the judicial case? - J Rowley | I was a little surprised to hear that it wasn't the boycott that desegregated the Alabama bus system, but the Supreme Court Decision. Furr's writing almost makes it seem that the boycott and the court decision were parallel events. I know that the boycott put an economic hardship on the bus system, but now I realize that may have not been the only goal. I am sure public attention was just as important. Do you think that more people were willing to help the boycott knowing that there was a case going to the supreme court? Do you think the boycott helped the judicial case? - J Rowley | ||
| + | |||
| + | This article was really enlightening and definitely brought to light another side of the Civil Rights movement (the involvement of white women) that is not often discussed. I think it is necessary to acknowledge that some southern whites really did want to help the Civil Rights movement. I know many of the above posts think that the amount of help received from white women was limited and I agree but I think this article did a good job of showing both sides to white women's involvement. I can't imagine that women like Virginia Durr were common it seems much more likely that the norm was closer to the white women who resented any interference with their black maids ability to clean their houses, the kind of women who passively supported segregation laws.-Emma Peck | ||
== Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | == Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | ||
