“In 1947, the Congress of Racial Equality, planned a Journey of Reconciliation, designed to test the Supreme Court's 1946 decision in the Irene Morgan case, which declared segregated seating of interstate passengers unconstitutional” ("History of Civil Rights in America - Home," p. 1). The Journey of Reconciliation began as movement uniting the south residents, despite that some other parts of the south was not ready to merge at that moment (Arsenault, 2006). In support of this movement, on many individuals, labeled as the Freedom Riders, made two groups, on Mother's Day, May 14, and decided to travel beginning from Alabama. Surprisingly, one of the groups was approached by a large number of mob angry members, around 200 hundred in Anniston. …show more content…
Learning the history shown in this movie, you became to understand the frustration and sometimes the insistency among many of African Americans around the Selma march. Violence in many cases was their only option to show their frustration and to have a national voice. Although the violence around the civil rights movement was highlighted on both movies, the importance of their efforts cannot be ignored. Both groups, celebrates the unity that can arise out of diversity, especially individuals work together to reach a common goal. As a social worker, I need to advocate actions of unity break down the walls that create any racial, spiritual or personal injustice or oppression. Social workers need to engage communities and nations of the world to constant revisit the meaning of unity by providing them with the necessary resources. This way, social workers will be respecting the individual beauty that reside in each one of us, as humans, brings out the dignity that confirms the individuality and multifaceted advantage of each one of us as unique. Non-violence act make you have dignity, freedom riders also use the strategy to enhance the destruction of violence. As the media started to show to the nation how violence hits back, their reaction changed and the nation saw the power of hate. An scary personality to participate in these violent acts against civil rights in the movie, is John Patterson, a the time Alabama’s governor, he is the person by the government to protect the Freedom Riders. He confirms “that he was afraid of Connor”(American Experience .WGBH | PBS, n.d.). John Patterson used politics as an individual opportunity to reach his professional goals. It is well known that he use the support of Ku Klux Klan support from political party towards his election (Koeppen,