MLK Jr. Movie Day

In class today we decided to watch a documentary on the famous March on Washington on August of 1963. The film began with the organization of the march by a group of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supporters. Their job was to rally together the whole entire nation to march on the capitol in the span of one day. Their rally needed to be strong but nonviolent which considering the latest marches in the south was not very likely. The Theory of Popular Constitutionalism was directly seen in this bill because a whole nation was fighting to have segregation and it worked once the bill passed. With the bill in congress the supporters began to rally into a group the size of approximentally 250,000. The organizers would fundraise day and night to raise money for chartering buses and flights to move people from the oppressed southern states to Washington, D.C. for the events and speeches. Once people had congregated onto every inch of green grass that could accommodate them, celebrities would began to play music and introduce speakers. The first speaker was John Lewis who was remembered as having the second best speech of the day but no one in the area could compete with Martin Luther King Jr. He delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech, with the whole nation watching he changed the hearts and minds of every individual in the United States that day. As the day ended, it was determined a year later that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to pass and be put into law very soon. The dream of MLK Jr. was achieved and they finally "free at last"

Mock Trial of Brown v. Board of Education

In class today we decided to conduct our third mock trial of the semester. For this mock trial we decided to decipher the strongly debated case of Brown v. Board of Education. The case was so important because it allowed for the desegregation of white and black schools in Topeka. In saying this, the case of Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned and the schools were combined. I decided to join the side of the parents who were fighting to place their kids in the nicer more educationally superior white schools. The thirteen parents who stood behind 20 black children were in the right to receive a proper education. Seeing as though the children were indicated as United States citizens they should be guaranteed education that is equal to that of a white child. They tried to create this with the Plessy trial but in turn the black schools were underfunded and in turn created a separation in the learning communities for blacks. The states  This wasn't right and needed to be fixed with the creation of one school.
In the end, the prosecution was right because they defeated the board and created equal schooling. Their arguments were stronger and more supported by the court. The judge also seemed to agree with their decisions. It was not only against the law but also unfair to the black race.