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Remember The Titans Segregation

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Remember The Titans is a great football movie, and an even better civil rights movie. The movie shows how TC Williams handled desegregation and how the football team brought the community together. When the white players and black players came together for the first time, they did not get along. Coach Herman Boone took the team to a camp, and the players started to get along. When the players went back to school, they experienced the racism all over again. Eventually, the team helped the school and community get over the desegregation. The movie takes place in 1971, and TC Williams High School was one of the first high schools in the area to desegregate. The type of segregation that the school had was de facto, which means that blacks and whites could go to school together. However, there were still segregated schools because the kids in a neighborhood went to school together, and the neighborhoods were usually full of people of one race. Brown vs. Board of Education was an event that led to the …show more content…

The most important part of the trip was that the players became close to each other and the team was a family. Coach Boone made all of the players learn about each other and become comfortable with each other. The camp was also essential for conditioning and learning plays. Seeing how hard the players were pushed, you can tell that they would be in very good shape. There was a big difference of how the team was when they boarded the bus to go to the camp, and when they arrived home. I think that going to the camp was one of the biggest reasons for the teams success. In conclusion, Remember the Titans was a very powerful movie. It was very enjoyable to watch, and is personally one of my favorite movies. Remember the Titans shows how a football team helps their community overcome the integration of blacks into TC Williams High School. I would highly recommend this movie to anybody, even if they didn't like

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