Reflection

Reflection:
1) How has your understanding of modern Civil Rights Movement evolved?
Honestly, before this week I didn't know much about civil right movements. I new the basic facts, the most famous people that we always hear about like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., nothing more. After this week, studying more indepth about the movements, has really changed my view on these movements. After reading coming of age in mississippi,which I really enjoyed, I realized that negroes had to go through alot to be free. Living in harsh conditions, being constantly threatened, disrespected , and getting low pay, life was no joke for them. We end to undermind situations until we really start learning about indepth. I appreciate and admire those who stood up against the racist whites despite all that they have to go through. Anne Moody while she was working for the movement, was contantly living under threats and hardly got any sleep. She becamse very ill and at one point left back to New Orleans but she realized she really missed it and went back. If it wasn't for people like her, we'd still be living in a segregated world.

2) How has your writing aout the movement evolved pver the course of the week?
Since I didn't know much about the movement beforehand, the writing connected to the moevment has become more indepth then before. I've realized that writing about the movement gives you a better understanding about it, because you have to analyze your thoughts as well as support them with evidence just as what you would have to do in a discussion type environment. Writing about the movement was like a lesson in it's own where we were given a question and had to go look in our readings to find the answer. We learned how to write an author's opinion in a certain format and that helped us help condense the information and make it more precise, straight to the point.