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Flip on television and turn it on a sports channel. You will notice broadcasters trying to

give you the experience of being in the game. They will use newer and newer technology to get

better camera angles. NASCAR has put cameras in the cars with drivers. People want the

experience of being there. Scholars studying history are no exception. Our class on Religion and

Civil Rights has brought me closer to towards a firsthand experience of the Civil Rights

Movement.

One of the sort comings of many history classes is that events or phenomena are usually

oversimplified. When an event is described in a lecture, the person giving the lecture usually

does not take the time to describe an example of the event. For example, with the Civil …show more content…

The government collects basic information on a person and then makes sure they

understand how a government functions before they can vote. This would ideally mean that you

would have well educated and informed voters who are easy contact. Having read about Mrs.

Hamer’s experience trying to register to vote makes the situation seems, for a lack of a better

term, less black and white. The system doesn’t scream corruption. It makes it easy for moderates

to exist. Only people that put some thought into what was going on or went to register to vote

and was denied would start to see the problems that existed and the real motives behind the

system. Often disenfranchisement is presented as this giant splinter in a people’s eyes. It is

portrayed on something that was at the forefront all the time and people just lived with the fact

that the system was blatantly corrupt. This course has taught me more and more that inequity is a

wolf that walks around in sheep’s clothing.

Many people are quick to over glorify Martin Luther King Jr. They will make him sound

like a true leader, who had a clear vision and plan. They tend to not mention, and probably do not

know that many leaders in the Civil Rights Movement were critical of King. In April of 1959

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth wrote a leader to King expressing his frustrations with how slow

the movement

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