In episode 3 you see a lot of interesting things. The biggest theme
that I took away from it was, equal rights. Not everyone had equal rights. It
was only the wealthy white male that had everything going for them. Some states
had segregated blacks and whites and made different schools for each of them.
All of the funding went to the white schools, while all the black schools got all
of the old things from the white schools. This was hard to watch because it
also explained how many of the black teachers were more qualified because they
had their masters and the white teachers didn’t. If you were any race other
than white, then you were treated differently and not in a kind way. You were
looked down upon and were thought to less smart. When black students were
finally allowed in white schools after much protest, they were ridiculed every
day and had to go through a never ending battle just to get an education.
Episode 3 also talked about women’s rights and how a student athlete
named Dorothy, fought for her right to play sports and wrote a letter to the
government. The letter spoke about how she was being discriminated against and
how it wasn’t right. This girl could play basketball with the best of them and
she wanted to have all of the same opportunities that the man had.
The same thing went for any student that was disabled. Why shouldn’t
they receive the opportunities as everyone else. Why are they not allowed at
school because the school doesn’t support people in wheel chairs? Having laws
in place to protect these students is great but it’s also insane to think that
we needed to put the laws in place for people to act like decent human beings.
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