Glory: A Brief Summary Of The Film Glory

In the movie “Glory” it tells the story of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts, the first Civil war that allowed African American men to volunteer in the war. This was started because Officer Shaw volunteered to lead the African American soldiers. Unfortunately, Shaw's job wasn’t effortless he had to handle the people who had orders to kill superior African Americans and also he had to manage his own officers. Officer Shaw spent most of his time maintaining both sides and trying to get them to come together to fight to win the war. The reason why so much commotion existed between the White Northerns and African Americans was simply because white people felt as if African American men didn’t have the ability to be a robust, reliable soldier. They also felt as if they were less of them just because the color of their skin was different from …show more content…
Officer Shaw however felt differently he believed they were just as capable as the white soldiers to fight in the war, so he led them into war. Even though the African Americans had Officer Shaw by their side the majority of the time, they still ran into problems with the other White Northerners. The colored soldiers still weren’t treated properly and they didn’t get the same treatment the white soldiers received. Even though all of this went on the African American soldiers never gave up and they stood up for themselves in order to get treated the same as the white people. In addition, one African American soldier in this movie in particular stood up for not only himself, but also the rest of the soldiers multiple times.He got the African American soldiers to go against what the white people had going on. In the end the African American soldiers get respected and treated properly just like the white soldiers. So therefore, to sum the whole movie up, the movie is about the huge transformation of oppressed people finally becoming proud people in the