Civil Rights

First off, I thought that the article you found (Ms. Williams) was very interesting!

I'm not too sure if this one works so I'm going to do two. My first is based off of a movie called "Freedom Writers," it is about a new young white teacher who went into this ghetto school and the African Americans and Latinos were in her class and she changed their lives completely. The school board did want to fund these students because they thought that they were dumb and would never do anything with their lives. The teacher ended up being their English teacher throughout their high school expierence and they beat the odds of graduating and going to college. This is also based on a true story.

http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Freedom_Writers/Summary/

I picked this because I thought that the teacher stuck up for what she believed in and did what was right. At first she was taken back by how the students acted and she was not open to teaching them, she wanted to give up. In the end she changed their lives. This relates to Bessie I think because she had opinions about white people and she said if it wasn't for teachers then she would not like white people, so she had to be open minded as well; just like the teacher. Sadie and Bessie also beat the odds of going to college and succeeding, just like the students. I think that the teacher just took a stand for what she believed in.

This is my second on:

http://www.enotes.com/civil-rights-article


The article dealt with the fact that people were losing their faith during the fight for equality. Malcolm X thought that people should fight for what they want and it does not matter what the conditions may be. Malcolm disagreed with a lot of things that King said. This article is related to everything that we talked about because it talked about what Malcolm X believed in and how he thought the situations should be handled.