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Nate-Aint Scared of Your Jails

Favorite Quote:" they came to take my bed, and i wrapped my arms around it and wouldn't let them take my mattress. The guards called out for one of the other black inmates to come take it from me. As he beat me he was crying, because beating me hurt him more than it did me."
    Overall i really liked this documentary. It was very interesting how peaceful each protest was, and I wasn't expecting there to be video footage of each of the major protests. The part of the documentary that I liked the most was about the sit in on a restaurant with the video of the protesters being beaten up while policemen sat idly by. Even though the protesters were being badly beaten they didn't fight back and even kept trying to stay seated after the beatings.

Ain’t Scared of Your Jails

That was quote from the movie and they were gunge white people who gathering in the restaurant. it was February 21, 1960. In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black college students sat down at a lunch counter reserved for whites and refused to leave. And the police didn’t protect them from the gunge.  At the same time, when the police arrives to the restaurant and they treated them a bad way. This sit-in was a direct challenge to southern tradition. They were for 70,000 black residents; this was still the segregated South such as Movies, hotels and city buses they were all segregated by white people. However, the Blacks has spent money in downtown stores, but were refused seats at lunch counters.     

We Ain't Scared of Your Jails

     The quote that I really liked was from when one of the protesters was talking about how some people were worried that taking part in the protest would have an adverse effect on their future. Arrest records could affect their ability to find a job. The protester said that it didn't bother him because for him, "...it was like a crusade, it was a badge of honor." He knew what he was doing was right, and he was proud of his part in the protest and the time he spent in jail.

     I think that the most effective strategy that the protesters used was the workshops. The protesters were taught what to expect and how to receive blows without fighting back. This had to have taken an incredible amount of self control. If protesters had fought back, then it would have probably caused even more violence. Also, using violence could cause people to lose respect for the movement.

"We aint scared of your jails"

A few things stuck out to me in this documentary. The biggest one to me was the fact that the Birmingham police were aware and the FBI was informed about the attack on the "freedom riders" well before the fact and that they both refused to take any proactive steps to protect those who were simply exercising their right as American citizens. Another thing I learned was how well MLK's words were received about the effectiveness of non violent direct action. In my opinion the most useful tactic discussed in the film was that of the workshops, which prepared African Americans for what to expect when they were attempting to peacefully demonstrate.
One of the quote's I took from the documentary was from Jim Zwerg, "We'll keep riding." It seems arbitrary but in the context of what the young man had just gone through for what he believed was right, they are dynamic.  

Freedom Fight

     "Do you feel that it's wrong to discriminate against a person solely on the basis of race and color?" A question directed to Mayor West by Diane Nash. What struck me the most was the height at which discrimination was back then, especially in the south that it led to so many deaths and severe injuries of colored individuals in the struggle to be looked upon and treated as equal American citizens.

     Of all the tactics used by the students, I think the freedom riders tactic was more successful because it had a positive impact on the civil rights movement as they continuously displayed courage in their endeavor despite the numerous obstacles they encountered from the government, law enforcement, judicial system and the general public

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"Aint Scared of Your Jail", is a film about the color college students taking action because segregation was being notice.Not only the colored students took action, but some whites students helped them. The first action the students took was sitting at a dining table where the whites seated at, but nobody served the colored students two weeks straight. After that violent broke out, whites beating up colored students and other people who were protesting with them. The colored people came up with many tactics to protest without fighting back and the tactics are: Sit-ins, Workshops, Bus Boycott, no colored people went to downtown, and Freedom Riders. Freedom Riders is where most of the action happen, whites beat up colored and the police arrested the colored for causing trouble. When the colored people didn't go downtown, Whites noticed their business was affect by the colored people. So the color people had enough of the segregation and protest to the mayors office and he agreed segregation was wrong, then he declared Whites and Blacks have equal rights.