Summary: A Struggle For Educational Equality
When I watched the movie A Struggle for Educational Equality: 1950–1980 I got really emotional. I was really impacted by learning and seeing how hard it was for different races and cultures to obtain their education. I grew up in a society of privilege where I didn’t have to struggle to go to school. I never took the opportunity to observe my fellow students and think about their lives and if they had struggles to obtain their education. After watching this movie I feel like I have missed something and for now on need to be aware of my surroundings and the people around me. Segregation seems to be a continuous problem in the world, It is something that is not right and something that I myself do not participate in. Watching the African American
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Linda Brown, her parents and all those other people who were involved in fighting for the African American’s rights to go to school with White Americans near their homes, are the true heroes. I am grateful that I was able to go to school with mixed races and experience the cultural diversity. I was able to do so because of the true heroes that led the way to free education to all no matter what your race, color of your skin, and culture is. The Civil Rights Movement was necessary to assist our nation in its progression and growth. I am not a personal fan of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, but I am happy he signed the Civil Rights Act and ended Segregation. I look at the country now and I may not agree with what the current government feels is right for education, but I do know that whatever the current law is it does not segregate and includes all students living in America. I work at a school where a lot of the students are Mexican American’s. I watch and observe how some of them are eager to come to school to learn and earn an education. Watching this section of the video, I was again emotional. I can’t imagine how hard it was for these students to earn their education. I am just grateful my student’s don’t have to go through what the students in the past had
Linda Brown, her parents and all those other people who were involved in fighting for the African American’s rights to go to school with White Americans near their homes, are the true heroes. I am grateful that I was able to go to school with mixed races and experience the cultural diversity. I was able to do so because of the true heroes that led the way to free education to all no matter what your race, color of your skin, and culture is. The Civil Rights Movement was necessary to assist our nation in its progression and growth. I am not a personal fan of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, but I am happy he signed the Civil Rights Act and ended Segregation. I look at the country now and I may not agree with what the current government feels is right for education, but I do know that whatever the current law is it does not segregate and includes all students living in America. I work at a school where a lot of the students are Mexican American’s. I watch and observe how some of them are eager to come to school to learn and earn an education. Watching this section of the video, I was again emotional. I can’t imagine how hard it was for these students to earn their education. I am just grateful my student’s don’t have to go through what the students in the past had