Eyes on the Prize Griffin Gallas

Any time I learn about the civil right era I can't help but think about my ancestry. Being a white male I was born with an advantage to begin with. But to think that my ancestors could have potentially been apart of the anti-civil rights movement makes me sick. Watching the mistreatment of black people in America on video is disgusting and constantly shocks me given the community i've grown up in. Something interesting about the film for me is the difference between de jure and de facto discrimination. De jure discrimination was interesting to me because in the film, African Americans speak about the aspects of this reality. Black people were being discriminated against by law in the south and there was close to nothing they could do about it. This led to the civil rights movement.