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Violence In The Film Mudbound

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The media plays an imperative role in educating the world about past or current historical events. There have been countless films, television shows, music, and art depicting the events of the past. The Netflix original movie Mudbound set in Mississippi during the 1940s. The film is about a white family and a black family in Mississippi living on a farm working in poverty. Both families have a son off fighting for The United States of America in World War II. The film shows the emotions of the families and also follows the sons through their experiences at war and returning home. The families have a few things in common, and the only factor that is making them not equal is their race. Mudbound is an accurate depiction of what it was like for Americans soldiers as …show more content…

There were significant milestones being made, for example, Jackie Robinson become the first African American to play major league baseball. In 1942, early civil rights activist founded the interracial Congress of Racial Equality, also known as CORE. CORE protested directly against racial inequality in public accommodations. Although these demonstrations did not get the national attention that postwar protests would, they constituted the prelude to the civil rights movement. In the film, Ronsel encounters an angry white southerner who was not onboard with equality and got very upset Ronsel walked through the front door. Ronsel said to the man, “When we was overseas they didn't make us use the back door. General Patton put us on the front line. Yes, sir. You know what we did? We kicked the hell out of Hitler and them Jerries! While y'all at home, safe and sound…”. How the white man was acting, was exactly what the activist were trying to get rid of with CORE. They were trying to make America realize that abroad they were equal, and fought for the lives of every American no matter what

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The movie showcases how the discrimination affected both soldiers and their families and emphasizes the importance of fighting for justice and equality. For example, the movie does not go into detail about the impact the battle of Fort Wagner had on the North. The New York City draft riots were a significant event in American history that demonstrated the anger and frustration of working-class citizens and the government's inability to address their concerns. The riots also exposed racial divisions in the city, highlighting the need for social reform and equality for all citizens, but this was all barely mentioned in the movie. African-Americans became the main targets of violence throughout the riots, with many being lynched or beaten by white mobs.

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During the Civil Rights movement in the 1960’s, shifts in the political and societal views were very apparent. Through out the time era, we saw figures of great importance and the strength of activists are its highest. The build up of severe racism and discrimination led to the beginning of the civil rights era, which led to several divides in blacks, as well as a beginning of a more enriched society.. The Civil Rights era had several key events leading up to the full force of the movement - including bus boycotts, Freedom Riders, and the Little Rock Nine. Once the movement began to increase in involvement, many supporters were gained.

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Influenced by King’s faith and tactics, many civil rights student-led activist groups were formed such as the SNCC. A core goal of the SNCC was to promote nonviolent protesting methods using religion as its base (SNCC, Doc A). The SNCC led various voting campaigns in the South, all led by students who shared a common belief. CORE was another group formed by students back in 1942. In the late 50s and 60s, they arranged or participated in some of the most pivotal peaceful protests such as the Freedom Rides and other bus boycotts (O).

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For example, sanitation workers had to carry bags of garbage that had holes in them and since they were paid low wages, they ended up poor on welfare. Not only was this film was a way of seeing another turning point during the civil rights movement but also, African Americans fighting for justice. Even though I was not born during that time, I can understand how they felt because it wasn’t that easy. In today’s society racism isn’t as bad as what it was during that time. Besides we still have times were we face racism in our lives so I would say in some areas racism is still a

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This shows that through all of this hatred, there are white people who understand the struggles African Americans have. They stop treating the African Americans with hatred because eventually everyone shares the same fate. During the disagreement between African Americans and White people, no one wanted to think how the police all around was treating people wrong. This is because police are protect and help people, therefore most people wouldn’t question them: “ I doubt you would so quickly commend the policeman if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negros here in the city jail; if you were here to watch them curse and push old Negro women and young Negro girls;

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Civil rights was an important American social movement throughout the late 40s to the 60s. There was once a time where African Americans and whites used separate bathrooms, separate drinking fountains and sat on separate spots on the bus. They also played on separate baseball teams. During this time period Baseball was “America’s Pastime, “and a major social get together for white and black Americans (Kenny 2013). In 1947 both of these American social aspects collided turbulently, when the Brooklyn Dodgers gave Jackie Robinson a chance to play professional baseball.

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They made sure that everybody that had the right to call themselves an American knew what was going on right under their noses. The determination of these people was so great that when somebody told them to stop, that they were making a mistake, they would remember the 14-year-old’s horrible fate. Till died because he simply whistled at a white woman, and the thought of that injustice never dissolving would make them protest even harder. It is in those moments where you really see the amount of strength, and courage people can muster when

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When Rosa Park decided to not let her seat to a white in a public bus, she started what was later known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, during the boycott Afro-American deiced to walk instead of using the public transportation. Almost 60% of the money earned by the bus company came from Afro-Americans, Park stated that she was “tired of giving in” and later became known as an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. The Greensboro sit-ins was an even more remarkable event when four student decided to sit on a ‘whites only’ counter at the local Woolworth drug store, they remained there, without service, until the store closed, for the following six day more student followed them in this non-violent strategy in different business stores until Woolworth closed its door, later on the students founded the SNCC. In May 1961, “Freedom writer” with the racially integrated Congress of Racial Equality boarded buses and braved attacks by southern white mobs for daring to desegregate interstate transportation, many white people helped in the proses, there were cases in which white stand and received the attacks of the mobs so the blacks could continue their travel .Most of the pacifist strategies started by Martin Luther King, in August of 1963 the March in Washington in which he followed with more than over 200,000 American gave his famous speech demanding for civil and economic right for Afro-Americans.

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Introduction The civil rights movement in the mid-1900s was the fight to end racial segregation in the United States. This means equal or fair access and opportunities to have the quality of life guaranteed for all United States citizens. The long, hot summer of 1967 was “the high point in racial strife in postwar American cities”. Communities within cities across the country became restless with the lack of change necessary to better everyone.

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For the next few months, the African American students attended school under armed supervision. Even so, they faced physical and verbal abuse from their white peers’’(Source B).This demonstrates how people got together and protested along with the African American students on how the segregationists were being racist and treating them like they were nonexistent. This also shows how the segregationists were ignoring the fact that others were disagreeing with them, but they were mainly focused on being inconsiderate and treating the ‘’Little Rock Nine’’ poorly because they were Negros. After All, the Little Rock Showdown displayed how the segregationists treated the Negro students unequally because they were just as qualified to go to school with white

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