Reflections on Unit 4

For the final unit we learned about the civil rights movement and post civil rights. We learned about what "ordinary people" did and the changed they helped make in their own everyday life. We learned the true meaning of what was behind the change in our laws and how that affected everybody throughout the country. For better, the civil rights movement made a huge impact on our society and the way we're seen today. We also learned about post civil rights time and how it's affected us today and the problems that are still faced in our society.
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During the civil rights period our country faced a great divide. In this time period we had many African American leaders fighting for their races rights and what they deserved as humans. The outcome of the civil rights movement gave African Americans the rights of other Americans. It gave them equality. It took many "ordinary people" doing extraordinary things. The African American community came together in Unions and in peaceful protests and were able to create change. The major leader of this movement was Martin Luther King who became famous for his "I have a dream" speech creating a ripple throughout our country. Soon after however, he was murdered for those same beliefs. For his beliefs in equality. Luckily there were people who still believed. Those people made his dream come true.
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Post civil rights era, it seems we've taken a few steps back. We lack the basic human nature of being kind to one another based on a skin tone. Luckily that isn't everyone, but it is still some of the people within our society creating a resonating effect through others to have the same hatred in their hearts instilled from their ancestors. I think that even now people don't understand how good it was for our country to give African American's their basic rights as Americans. I also don't think people understand how utterly humiliating it is for then when they belittle African American's and speak down on them. It's time again for a change. Why is it we can't see the same things our ancestors finally understood?
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This class had made a huge impact on me as a person and a student. Not understanding before how we made life for the African American community doesn't make sense to me now. How are we not teaching our future generations what's been done and how not to be like that anymore? I think this class has made me a better person by giving me a new view on the treatment of African Americans in the past and present.
I didn't realize before how we bounced back an entire century and I'm grateful to have had the experience I have to learn about the history of African Americans and how hard they've worked and how much they went through. From the slave trade to today they haven't had it even slightly easy here and it seems nobody cares to make it any easier.

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