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The scene where the Thompson's are eating Christmas dinner and discussing the boycott was extremely accurate. The line that stood out to me, however, was when they talked about how the boycott showed that there was a connection with the communists. The idea of the black community working with the communists was something that only heightened the fears of the southern whites like we talked about in class. Also, the Theo's reaction to the white boys beating him up when he tries to help and refuses to fight back embodies MLK's teachings. Earlier in the film he is extremely excited to go to the rally and his actions while he is being beaten shows that he truly listened and believed what MLK taught. -Melissa | The scene where the Thompson's are eating Christmas dinner and discussing the boycott was extremely accurate. The line that stood out to me, however, was when they talked about how the boycott showed that there was a connection with the communists. The idea of the black community working with the communists was something that only heightened the fears of the southern whites like we talked about in class. Also, the Theo's reaction to the white boys beating him up when he tries to help and refuses to fight back embodies MLK's teachings. Earlier in the film he is extremely excited to go to the rally and his actions while he is being beaten shows that he truly listened and believed what MLK taught. -Melissa | ||
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| + | There was a comment in the film that struck and that was when Odessa mentioned people from the nearby base (Maxwell) helping the the car pool. I had never heard of this and tried to find more information about it and this is what I found. "it became clear to me, that the success of this transportation system was made possible by the Korean War GI's, who used their experience in the army's "motor pools" specifically and the army generally, to perform the maintenance of the automobiles and become the hard core of the drivers that sustained this transportation system for a year." [Roland Sheppard http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/BusBoycott.htm] That was it. My question is, if this was the case why isn't more talked about this? This makes thing more complicated. Also, the movie was accurate in having Miriam drive Odessa to work. From the Virginia Durr readings she pointed out this was the case for many women. However, many of them stopped because of outside pressures. -Jenn | ||
== Things the movie got wrong == | == Things the movie got wrong == | ||
