The Long Walk Home

In the movie The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg, the part that made me feel the most was when the sister got on a bus and it was boycott. Then, three guys got on the bus and started making fun of her. When the bus stopped, she ran off the bus. The guys were also kicked off the bus by the bus driver and they followed her. Then they cornered her and tried to beat her up. Right before the guys beat her up, her younger brother came and tried to protect her. He got punched and kicked by the three guys. Right after that the brother and sister's father came and scared the guys off. I can't believe that those guys would do that to the sister just because she was on the bus. She didn't do anything to hurt them. I felt really bad when the guys were calling her names and making her call them "sir" because that must have felt so humiliating.

Two Examples of Jim Crow Laws

Marriage:

Florida: Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room, shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding 12 months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Entertainment:

Georgia: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race.

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html

Municipal Swmming Pool

I think it's mean that in some public swimming pools, the pool would be open to white people about 5 days a week and for black people, the pool would be open to them only about 1-2 days a week. I think this is mean because the white and black people should have equal days to swim in the pool. I can't believe that in some pools, the day before the pool was open only for black people, the white people would drain out the pool, and use liquid chlorine to scrub the whole pool. I can't believe this because the reason they did this was because they thought the black people were unclean and the chlorine would kill any bacteria. Also, the white and black people couldn't swim together.

How Did Elijah Become A Man?

I think Elijah became a man when he stood up for what he believed in. When Mr. Turner offered Elijah ten dollars if he could rescue Little David, Elijah wouldn't take it. He said " You were offering 25 dollarsto the others" (p.101). They argued some more. Then Mr. Turner said " You think you worth 25 dollars ?" (p.101). They kept arguing until Elijah finally said " We ain't going until we get 35 dollars, cash money" (p.101). When Elijah stood up for what he believed in, I think he showed that he had become a man.

How Did You Feel When Lizzy Left With Lem and Joshua?

I felt excited when Lizzy left with Lem and Joshua because hopefully she would escape to the Northern U.S. and be free. She wouldn't have to live on the plantation anymore and be whipped if she did something bad. Even though she had to leave her family, she did escape with Lem and Joshua, who were also her family. I think Lizzy was happy to be free because on p.58 she thinks to herself "It was what happened to her. She was free. It was a scary free, and it was a hungry free, and a tired free, but it was free" (p.58).

Character Trait for Muhammad

I chose the character trait determined because when Muhammad was in Live Oaks Planatation, he never thought of himself as a slave, he knew he was a man on p.15 " But every morning he would get up and say, I am a man! I am a man! " (p.15).

Slavery

Slaves have been used because they're cheaper than hired workers. For that reason, places like the Southern U.S. and Rome would typically have a free lower class that would have trouble finding work. They would become so poor that the way they live would be worse than the slaves.

Gullahs Who Escaped Slavery

The Black Seminoles are a small offshoot of the Gullah who escaped from the rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia. They built their own settlements on the Florida frontier, fought a series of wars to preserve their freedom, and were scattered across North America. Some Gullah slaves managed to escape from coastal South Carolina and Georgia south into the Florida peninsula.(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/07.htm).