Video Analysis: Fetching Water

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“Fetching water”
According to the passage Fetching Water the group of men didn’t want to give water to william and his father until all the white men got there’s and i think the reasoning for it is because of his skin color and the hatred between blacks and then williams father stated there gonna be a day where this will no more and he's basically saying that one day that it's not gonna matter what color your skin is that we the people should all be treated the same no matter what we look like. In the video John F. Kennedy’s finest moments the video is saying how george wallace the governor of alabama trying to prevent the first two black students from registering

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