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Teamwork And Equality
AAccording to James W. Davidson and Mark H. Lytle in After the Fact of Chapter 15, the authors’ showed us that teamwork is so powerful to lead people strives for racial equality. In the beginning, the four African American college students to fight against racial segregation, which they asked to be served at a whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Even though the service was refused but the students sat quietly and waited to be served. This action ignited numerous regional and national of students’ sit-ins and start confronting segregation in the other states. They encountered physical violence, arrested, jailed, and thousands march in protests that continue for years. Eventually, the “black power” was victory and the civil rights bill was born in 1963. My reaction to “Sitting In” is that teamwork in union there is strength and insist on working together is success because people work alone usually can do a little, but people work …show more content…
Instead, if there have a group of people are willing to make a complaint on the issue, and the success rate would higher than work alone. This is related to the civil rights that individual work alone can do so little or even none of transform but people work together can do so much more. That is the reason why from past to present there have many people utilized protest march to fight for whatever the reason, which it also called “the power of the mass” to attract close attention for people who concern about the event, because many people know that the increasing level of confrontation with the legislature can occur simultaneously pressure in order to win a

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