The Butler: Truth Be Told
From the time period of 1954-1968, color people were being discriminated against by white people. Color people were getting paid less for doing the same amount of work as white people and they weren’t allowed to use the same public facilities. It was considered fraud for a color person to sit in the white section in public. The discrimination of color people during this time period was the Civil Rights Movement. In Lee Daniels’ “The Butler”, it portrays Cecil Gaines, an African-American (the butler) and his family and what it was like for them during the Civil Rights Movement.
In 1926 in Macon Georgia, the scene is set on a cotton field. Cecil, a young boy, watches as the father get killed by the boss. As Cecil …show more content…
One of the biggest issues in the 1950s-1960s black men, women and children faced was not being able to use the same facilities as white people such as fountains and bathrooms. All they wanted was just to be treated the same way as white people. Many presidents and leaders made speeches about equal rights. One such speech was from the Chief Justice Warren on his decision about the integration of public schools during the Brown vs. Board of Education. On May 14, 1954, he delivered the opinion of the court, stating that “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal…” In the movie, Louis Gaines was fighting for equal rights when he joined Free Riders and especially when he joined the Black Panther Party. President John F. Kennedy also made a global speech about inequality and both colored and non colored people to have the right to use the same public facilities. His compared his speech about inequality to the armies and militaries and how the soldiers and troops aren’t just white people, there are black men and women fighting out there as well. On June 11, 1963, at the Report to the American People on Civil Rights, he said in his speech, “Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Vietnam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.” This applies to both Louis and Charlie Gaines. Louis is a part of the Black Panther Party which fought for equal rights, Charlie was an African-American soldier who risked his life fighting in Vietnam. On August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and
From the time period of 1954-1968, color people were being discriminated against by white people. Color people were getting paid less for doing the same amount of work as white people and they weren’t allowed to use the same public facilities. It was considered fraud for a color person to sit in the white section in public. The discrimination of color people during this time period was the Civil Rights Movement. In Lee Daniels’ “The Butler”, it portrays Cecil Gaines, an African-American (the butler) and his family and what it was like for them during the Civil Rights Movement.
In 1926 in Macon Georgia, the scene is set on a cotton field. Cecil, a young boy, watches as the father get killed by the boss. As Cecil …show more content…
One of the biggest issues in the 1950s-1960s black men, women and children faced was not being able to use the same facilities as white people such as fountains and bathrooms. All they wanted was just to be treated the same way as white people. Many presidents and leaders made speeches about equal rights. One such speech was from the Chief Justice Warren on his decision about the integration of public schools during the Brown vs. Board of Education. On May 14, 1954, he delivered the opinion of the court, stating that “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal…” In the movie, Louis Gaines was fighting for equal rights when he joined Free Riders and especially when he joined the Black Panther Party. President John F. Kennedy also made a global speech about inequality and both colored and non colored people to have the right to use the same public facilities. His compared his speech about inequality to the armies and militaries and how the soldiers and troops aren’t just white people, there are black men and women fighting out there as well. On June 11, 1963, at the Report to the American People on Civil Rights, he said in his speech, “Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Vietnam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.” This applies to both Louis and Charlie Gaines. Louis is a part of the Black Panther Party which fought for equal rights, Charlie was an African-American soldier who risked his life fighting in Vietnam. On August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and