CHAPTER 14

    I think sit-in is a kind of harmony movement without violence. It has a strong effect for the Civil Rights movement because it is a popular and effective tool for students to force the desegregation of restaurants and lunch counters.


    As for the Norman Rockwell painting that Green writes about, It depicts Ruby, a six-year-old African American girl with a starched white dress and white ribbons in her hair, on her way to her school, a white school. From this painting, I can feel the threat and violence against the little girl. Especially, on the wall behind her is written the racial slur "nigger" and the letters "KKK"; a smashed and splattered tomato thrown against the wall is also visible. Also, I can feel the loneliness of the girl and the white protesters are angry about desegregation.

Loving and finishing up w/ Green

This week, I'd like you to make connections between Loving and Kristen Green's book. One question I have: How are the rights to marry who you want and the rights to have a good education related?

Lacy Ward Jr., director of the Moton Museum, thinks that race is a social construct (pp. 247-248). What does that mean? Do you agree or disagree?

At the beginning of Ch. 21, Green talks about how the black and white customers sit on different sides of the McDonald's, choosing segregation even when it's not enforced. Why do you think this is?

The last line of the book is, "She averted her eyes and didn't respond." Why do you think this is the last scene in the book?

As you watch Loving this week, I would like you to think about the issue of "emotion" in reading/viewing. Which text caused you to feel more? We've tended to be a bit vague about what we're talking about in class so I'd like us to try and be more specific. What causes a scene to be emotional and what causes it to be more dead? Can you point to a specific scene in either text and explain why it had, or didn't have, an effect on you?

What questions do you have?

"White Academies"

As if to drive home that the past is never past, I read this editorial today in The Times. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was just elected to the US Senate, went to a "white academy" in Mississippi like the one in Prince Edward County. This writer argues that that experience has a lot to do w/ her world view. What do you think?

Tutoring

Hi all. As I've said throughout the term, you can get extra credit by going to the Writing Center (and you're required to go if you want to rewrite for a new grade, even an NC). I wanted you to be aware of the extended hours for 12/06 (food served!):

With all deliberate speed

In the short film documentary called "With all deliberate speed" it talks about a scene from the book where a white young man helped show society that having integrated schools where both white and black students attend would not be the end of america. The young white man was named Dickie Moss. In the documentary Dickie Moss describes how his father asked him to come from his boarding school back home and attend a regular high school black students. His father wanted to show that having white kids attend school with black kids was not bad for america. Dickie Moss decided to come back home and attend that high school and show how integrated schools should be allowed. In school Dickie Moss had a black friend and they grew old together remembering their experiences in the high school as well as educating people and young students about the time in history they.........

In Class Video Response

I can imagine that, for this man who grew up in Prince Edward County, seeing how far the schools have come must've been a feeling like no other. It must've been a mixture emotions, overwhelming even. Seeing this man cry as he spoke about his past served as another reminder of the grief and pain that African Americans went through during the time of segregation. The professor who worked at the school, and who happened to be white, reminisced on his childhood and what it was like to play with one of the boys in the yard. Relating back to the book, Kristen Green speaks about her experience growing up in school. She explains the difficult decisions her parents had to make regarding her education and their final decision  to put her in Prince Edward Academy. They say it wasn't because they wanted her to participate in a segregated school, but that the education there was better. It's clear that her lack of exposure to black people, or any other race for that matter, is what brought her so much surprise  when she saw them. I think she kind of took that as a lesson, and made her decide she wanted something different for her girls. She wanted diversity for

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County

During the reading in class on the bottom of page 188- to the middle of 191 showed us that some of the parents and some of their children didn't want schools to be segregated anymore. The segregation in the town was normal. An example of this was when Gordon moss sent his son to a free school believing this would make some of the other parents to start sending their children to free school than all white school.

With All Deliberate Spreed

In this video, from what I've seen Dickie Moss seemed to be very open about his situation

 and how his parents were racist but not in a way where everyone thought. He was very serious and looked like it brought him memories once he walked into the school he attended back then when all the racism was going on. Moss attended to free schools...

This part of the book tells us about the opening of the free school. superintendent talks about the difficulties that students will face like not able to read and some would not be able to read the alphabet,but he said he was excited about the innovated teacher would be teaching that year. The prince Edward County children had caught the attention and many teachers around the country wanted to help. Half of the teachers were out of state from states like Boston ,New York, .......

it was really sad to see that he started crying when he started talking about the past and just him being in school in general, its sad that its a bad memory instead of a good one...

Review about p.188-p.191

                 After reading these several pages, the procession of opening the Free school is tough. During previous morning, a bomb had exploded nearby the school which caused a lot of black children injured. After the bombing, there is a riots breaking out in Birmingham. Besides that, the Free School organizer, Sullivan, received threatening letters and calls. These things terrified Prince Edward parents and they worried about their children's safety in the Free School. However, with Sullivan's effort, some white parents assented to sent their kids to the Free school. For example,
 Gordon Moss was the first parent to enroll his son, Dickie. He hoped that it would encourage other withe parents to sent their kids to the school. I think Moss's action is a good  opening for the desegregation.   

response to the in class video

Watching Dick Moss return to his school in the documentary "With all Deliberate Speed" after so many years really puts a light on how the world worked in his time in comparison to why he had to attend. His father made it his decision and because they where good people and not just a god fearing honest American like so many others in his town. Moss went there to help in full support and it wouldn't be long for the protection of being white to wear off which more noble than anything else...

Prince Edward County response 11/27/18

During this segment of the book I found it interesting how far the white people had gone in terms of violence over the school segregation issue.  I knew of the protest and some physical violence going on back then, but the bombing of the Baptist Church in Birmingham that took the lives of four black girls was new to me.  Even white people who decided to send their kids to the free integrated school were sent death threats and called names like "Nigger lover"...