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| Wood-May at the Schubert Theatre, NYC |
The Reconstruction after the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement are extremely hard topics for me to learn about and discuss because those topics bring out a rage in me. I often question the humanity of some people when I study the Civil Rights Movement. To make sure that we were prepared mentally to go visit some of the places that were in the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, we educated ourselves on the topic even more. We read “The Blood of Emmett Till” and watched documentaries that were about how the people in the South responded to their defeat of the Civil War. Even though the 13th and 14th Amendment gave African Americans freedom and the right to vote, we saw how racist people in the South made it nearly impossible for Blacks to vote by putting tax and literacy tests that most African Americans could not pass.
On our trip, we will be having discussions with people that have live in the south for their entire lives about the Civil Rights period. To prepare for those future discussions, Dr. Tom McCabe, a history professor at Rutgers, came to speak with us. We talked about the History of Newark and the issue of Redlining. After our discussion with Dr. McCabe, we able to draw connections between the history of Newark and the Civil Rights Movement. These are just a little bit of what we did as preparation to make our trip to the South unforgettable and productive.
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