Chapter Summary: Finding Your Roots

The episode Finding your roots, displays the back ground of three famous African American and their ancestors during slavery. The three celebrities; NAS, Valerie, and Angela, all have great great grandparents that were born into slavery and went through tough times. Through out the episode, the celebrities were realizing the difficult times their great great grandparents went through and relate to Collins- “color blindness, history, and the law” and Andrews- “Browning and Blacking”. The episode relates to these short shorts because they deal with slavery and negative things that African Americans ad to deal with. The information the celebrities were finding out about their family was mainly hurtful toward them and had a few positive outcomes. One positive outcome is that, in Valerie’s family her great great grandfather’s dad was a white human and so therefore, where not
Even when they were free, whites did not find approve of whites marrying African Americans and the white community still did not want anything to do with their child if it was any part African American. They struggled to still find freedom because the white community still treated them like they were still slaves and abused them. It was not until the 1900’s when the black community started to find more rights and freedom due to Martin Luther King and his speech. Also the March on Washington played a huge role in this crisis. Martin Luther King and the March on Washington made big changes for the black community and their civil rights. Due to these two things, the black community was able to stand up for themselves for the first time and were able to gain freedom. MLK did big things for this nation and help abolish the negativity toward the black community and gained their rights because of him. He was the leader of the black community and everyone looked up to