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This is an accuracy detail that I noticed: When Odessa and Miriam are driving in town and Miriam they notice the policeman closely following them, Odessa says to just slow down some and they should leave her alone, which is what happened. In Mrs. Durr's statements on page 224 she tells that police were cracking down on carpool drivers for going two miles over the speed limit. Odessa was very aware that this was what was happening, not just that the police wee being suspicious. -Whitney Holcomb | This is an accuracy detail that I noticed: When Odessa and Miriam are driving in town and Miriam they notice the policeman closely following them, Odessa says to just slow down some and they should leave her alone, which is what happened. In Mrs. Durr's statements on page 224 she tells that police were cracking down on carpool drivers for going two miles over the speed limit. Odessa was very aware that this was what was happening, not just that the police wee being suspicious. -Whitney Holcomb | ||
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| + | I really liked the ''Testimony of Thomas Williams''. I felt the main idea of the article was to convey the de facto laws they had in the South, and that those laws were rooted in white supremacist tradition rather than American jurisprudence. When the bus driver said "Your in the South now". It was that small phrase that justified everything that happened to Williams- and thousands of blacks in the Jim Crow era. Whites were able to get away with this behavior because they had the power to do so, and until the late 1950s no one made them do any differently. I think Williams exposed the crucial factor that would change life in the South- enforcement. "...Supreme Court decisions just are not enough. It is necessary to have a law to prevent them from doing these things." In the movie we see whites dominating and intimidating blacks because they could. The policemen were actively orchestrating the domination and intimidation. As was proven with the integration of schools in the decades to follow, enforcement of law would be the only way to ensure tangible change. - Jason Ward | ||
== 3 Movie as primary source about makers/time/setting/genre == | == 3 Movie as primary source about makers/time/setting/genre == | ||
