What did you learn?

I learned that back in the 1960s people were not treated the way they are treated now. People were going to jail, hanged, and killed because of their skin color. And they buisnesses in those cities took notice. Back then they wouldn’t serve people who were African-American. But now they are supposed to serve everyone. In the movie kids took tooth brushes to school because they knew they were going to jail that night. Martin Luther King Jr. said “that they were the unsung heroes”.  It wasn’t until 1964 when President Lyndon B. Johnson singed the Civil Rights Act, with Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy looking on, meant that segregation was now illegal in states.

What were some of the things that stuck with you? How did they make you feel?

It made me feel sick, because they did that stuff just to make whites look better and higher than African-Americans. Those kids were called on to do the “dirty” work, with the parents just watching them volunteering one by one. Some of the things they did to the peaceful protesters was spraying water hoses at them, releasing vicious dogs, and killing them. It is one of the most significant stories in Alabama’s history, the US History, and the Civil Right’s history.