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Florida Gulf Coast University The 1964 Civil Rights Act Discussion Responses
Response 1:
In this documentary scene, Powell’s tone, body language, tone, and diction conveyed that the sit-in movement, let alone the civil rights movement wasn’t a joke. Even at the beginning of the documentary, a woman gave a story about this woman being so nervous and uncomfortable in her workspace when they were doing the sit-in that she dropped numerous dishes. Even when that happened, it was sarcastically funny, but they didn’t laugh. Powell’s body language, tone, and diction showed that he was confident in what he was doing. The Civil Rights movement was severe and wasn’t taken lightly, while the amount of violence and people’s anger towards people participating in the sit-ins. In response to the student sit-ins in Nashville, mayor Ben West’s paradigm shift helped pave the way for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because he spoke up on how segregation was wrong and gave moral examples and rights that helped African Americans. After he spoke up, more African Americans were being served. The activist meant that it wasn’t because they wanted to do it when getting whooped by their parent. It’s that needed to be for discipline, and it hurts to see it happen, but it’s required. For Peewee, he had no choice because either he had to beat up the activist for not giving up his mattress or have the guards beat him for not punishing the activist. Peewee didn’t want to do it, resulting in him crying.
Response 2:
1. U.S. Representative and civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., responded to a reporter who asked him, “I take it, then, that you are advocating Negroes in New York to stay out of these national chain stores?” with “Oh no, that’s not true. I’m advocating that American citizen interested in democracy to stay out of chain stores.” What the Powell’s body language, tone, and diction in this scene of the documentary convey about the Civil Rights Movement does is body language is used in everyday life and his body language was hope and pride for his community, his African American community. That is what the Powell’s body language, tone, and diction in this scene of the documentary convey about the Civil Rights Movement does.
2. Mayor Ben West’s paradigm shift in response to the student sit-ins in Nashville help pave the way for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and ultimately, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 because he did not like this. He thought the protest was not the right thing to do. The Nashville sits in started becoming more to deal with because musical treats. That is why Mayor Ben West’s paradigm shift in response to the student sit-ins in Nashville help pave the way for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and ultimately, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
3. When talking about spending time in jail for demonstrating, one of the activists explains how the prison guards ordered a black inmate named Peewee to beat him, saying, “Do you remember when your parents used to whip you and say, “It’s gonna hurt me more than it hurts you?’ It hurt Peewee more than it hurt me.” The activist meant he did not want to punish the freedom rider. Peewee did not want to do that beating.
Response 3:
Subject: 5 dead, more than 40 injured after SUV slams into Wisconsin Christmas Parade
Source: NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/20-injur…
Synopsis: A parade in Wisconsin turned deadly after an SUV plowed into the crowd resulting in multiple serious injuries and left 5 people dead. The police are currently still investigating the situation but have a person of interest that is currently being investigated and in police custody. The motives and what exactly was the reasoning behind this accident have not come to light yet but are being worked on by police. They have suspicions that the person who committed this crime was fleeing a knife fight that had taken place earlier which is why they were driving through the crowd. There was multiple videos of the incident happening which shows a red SUV plowing through the crowd while an officer attempted to stop the vehicle by shooting at it.
Opinion: It is crazy that someone would just willingly drive through a huge crowd of people especially if they knew that they were going to injure and kill people in the process. Since they said that it could have been someone fleeing another crime, it is strange that they would now risk themselves being charged with the amount of crimes that are involved with driving through this parade, such as murder and other things. I really hope they have enough evidence to find the person who did this and arrest them.
