It was the Summer of 1998 and we moved to Cleveland, I had a 3- year old son. We had been there about 7 months and Black History Month came around. I thought I was so progressive and I had my son watch a movie about Rosa Parks with me. We talked with him about the buses and what segregation was. The following day I took him on the public transit, he looked at the black men seated and tells them to “Go sit in the back.” I thought I would die from embarrassment right there, I knew then this was going to be a lifetime of learning, but I really had no idea how much I didn’t know. Desmond Tutu’s quote was powerful and summed up perfectly all of the reading and videos that I viewed this week. “When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.” …show more content…
For example; the key to defeating injustice is non-violence and the groups had the foresight to practice non-violent demonstrations. Additionally, Gandhi had 3 conditions to ending the boycott so did the people in Montgomery. 75% of the foreign cloth shops closed and the bus company lost 75% of its daily revenue (p 77). Organize and stay united no matter how dire the circumstances became, and to utilize whatever time and space were available to do so as South Africans did at the weekly funerals and Alabamians did in the churches and by walking to and from work after a 16 -hour day shows a commitment to freedom that I cannot fully comprehend. Further, Gandhi would die by assassination as would