The question I want to raise is one we have looked at for women movements. In womens movements we look to see if men are need to make the movements sucessful and I feel like you can look at that with the Civil Rights movement to. Did this need to be primarily a movement jsut within the Black community. On the other side did this movement to include white supports to.
I think one of the reasons for its success was White support. The whites help got media attentions and news. When the got hurt or went missing it was able to get media news. I like that the majoraty of the leaders and followers were black. It really showed how much of a grassroot oppation that Kings movement was.
It was just one of the things that was on my mind. I know that Sara Beth and i looked at this some in India. It has been at the back of my mind sense the beginning of the class.
I don't think it makes as big of an impact as it does in Women movement. But I think the power issues still comes in to play. The people who want the change really need to step up and take control. I feel like the Civil Rights movement did a good job with that.
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