Final reflection

Before this course, I never realized how inhumane people could be to others. I was surprised and shocked about the extent of Jim Crow Laws. Whites in the 1960's were vicious in the way they treated Blacks. It seemed to them that Black people were animals who were not worth being in the same room or bretahing the same air as whites. I was especially shocked with the Black people in the south who accepted segregation and were toos craed to do anything about it. They even refused to speak about it amongst each other because they thought that the time would never come where there would be true freedom and equality. Really watching the Emmett Till video has made me understand the brutality of his murder. It made me angry when in the video, the members of the jury were shown to be whites from the hometown. Of course they supported the two men accused and did not take the case seriously. His life to Whites was worthless. Reading Coming of Age in Mississippi made me think about the fear people went through every day. It was hard enough getting through and surviving each day. I realize that just hearing about the civil rights movement isn't enough; you have to see all the events within it to believe it.