Today in the United States they celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Fifty-two years ago this March King was involved in a march in Selma to bring attention to voter rights, which is now a movie that played in local theatres two years ago. One of the participants, John Lewis, now a politician, has recently been criticized by Donald Trump as being all talk, no action.
Read here an overview of the march, why they marched happened, what happened during the march, and the consequences from the march.
Read here a news report from 52 years ago describing what happen at the march.
Read here reflections 50 years later of the march from Mrs Robinson, who was left for dead. The advice of the police sheriff was to leave the bodies “for the buzzards to eat.” At the bottom of this link is a movie trailer of Selma.
1. Why would the Blacks want the vote?
2. Why would the local authorities be resisting Blacks voting?
3. Why would the state troopers' treatment of Mrs Robinson eventually advance the cause of voter rights?
4. Much of the reporting of what happened at the event is by interviews, with few pictures. Why would the local authorities restrict the movement of the journalists and the people with cameras and hamper their ability to give a first hand account of what happened?
5. At the time of this march, as in much of the U.S. history, America was active in promoting freedom and justice in other parts of the world. How would the events at Selma embarrass the United States in promoting justice and freedom?
6. Reading the news reports, people commented that the racist policies that existed in Selma were accepted because that was how things were. People were raised with those racist practices and few thought to question them till the Civil Rights Movement. Looking around at our society, and thinking of what we have discussed in class, what unjust practices do you see in Canada?
Read here an overview of the march, why they marched happened, what happened during the march, and the consequences from the march.
Read here a news report from 52 years ago describing what happen at the march.
Read here reflections 50 years later of the march from Mrs Robinson, who was left for dead. The advice of the police sheriff was to leave the bodies “for the buzzards to eat.” At the bottom of this link is a movie trailer of Selma.
1. Why would the Blacks want the vote?
2. Why would the local authorities be resisting Blacks voting?
3. Why would the state troopers' treatment of Mrs Robinson eventually advance the cause of voter rights?
4. Much of the reporting of what happened at the event is by interviews, with few pictures. Why would the local authorities restrict the movement of the journalists and the people with cameras and hamper their ability to give a first hand account of what happened?
5. At the time of this march, as in much of the U.S. history, America was active in promoting freedom and justice in other parts of the world. How would the events at Selma embarrass the United States in promoting justice and freedom?
6. Reading the news reports, people commented that the racist policies that existed in Selma were accepted because that was how things were. People were raised with those racist practices and few thought to question them till the Civil Rights Movement. Looking around at our society, and thinking of what we have discussed in class, what unjust practices do you see in Canada?
Well, there's a lot of poor people who aren't getting enough money who should be getting more from social assistance. Also, the richer are just getting richer and the poorer are just getting poorer.
ReplyDeletein Canada there are a lot of poor people on social assistance who don't get enough money to pay for rent or phone bills and if they can't pay for the phone they will have trouble getting a job which eventually may cause the country trouble because not enough people will have jobs and the country will lose money.
ReplyDeletepeople still get scared when they see a black person walking down the street because they think they are dangerous and people think they are committing crimes.
ReplyDeleteWe think that Canada still has its issues, but we have gotten a lot better. Some of the issues that we face in Canada is that there are still believe that people aren’t equal.
ReplyDeleteZach Kairi Emma
6. canada today is very unequal because people don't get the same respect because black people are getting treated really bad and they are not getting respected and they need to be more respected on the streets and the stores and they get called names.
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