Outside involvement

The 1960 was time for change and I that the government and media help played into. During the 1960's election each party was on a thin line when it came to the civil rights movements. A prime example is when King was thrown into jail. Robert did the right thing my working behind the seen to get King out of jail.

The other successful thing was when Robert sent down Seigenthaler with the Freedom Riders. He was able to bring attention to the movements. Espically because he was hit unconscious.
I think the media attention was good for the movement.

At the same time the media can twist things. I think that the coverage that was shown was well balanced. I think that the both groups played into the media. With Civil Rights movements had one man in the spotlight MLK. Do I support their descision I don't know. I do know that that their were so many more people behind the movement than just MLK.

I think it is easy for school to just focus on MLK. While he was seen as evil man then, we have made him a hero in modern days. We idealism him and forget about the other leaders in the movement. I personally had never heard of Diane Nash before reading her article or seeing the movie. It just frustrated me that the other leaders are overlooked. You can't change it in the Elementry to high school education because then you would have to omit something. We already have to rewite the history every few years. The answer comes down what will you cut to teach more about the civil rights movements.