Civil Rights Reflection

From what we have learned through the Civil Rights unit, we saw what inequality and suffering people had to face during that time. I have learned that people then have had to fight for equality and suffered badly to try and achieve this. Based on the Museum walk project, I learned that many groups including 'Black Panthers' and 'Freedom Riders' fought in someways in order to achieve equality for African-American people. These two groups both used non-violent methods to achieve this but the Black Panthers were ready to stand up for their people. I learned also how terrible the U.S use to be back in the 1800's when African-American people were lynched based on being different from the white community.

Also from this unit I learned about the two widely known activist who's methods of peace were different, but had the same goal; Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. MLK's method was to use non-violence like others and also inspired many people with his famous 'I have a dream' speech. While we looked more into the speech i realized how powerful and moving his speech was towards black and white people. It was truly inspiring and moved a lot of people into helping out his cause. Malcolm X had a different plan for achieving equality. He was going to use any means necessary in order to achieve freedom. Both of these men had great ideas and moved a lot of people to join in their cause and succeeded in the end.

This unit has been a different experience for me and glad I have learned more about the horror that our nation used to bring on people who were different. This has really shown me how ugly our nation use to be and still is today. People then and now were and are getting beat just for being a different race then someone else. Back then hate crimes existed and even today they still exist. People of all races have fought hard in order to achieve equality and acceptance in their communities. Some even today fight for their rights and are doing their best in order to win their freedom and rights. It's an ugly world that we live in, but we need to help out to make the world a more beautiful place to live in .