I think the purpose of this documentary was to show people that no matter what happens in life people still push through. Like in Little Rock Nine, even though the African American students were spit on, laughed at, and threatened they pushed through with the beginning of integrating schools. One of the first things that comes up in the documentary is James Baldwin on The Dick Cavett Show in 1968. Mr. Cavett asks Baldwin why “negroes” didn’t feel optimistic if more blacks are getting higher jobs and pushing through all the discrimination they first faced. Baldwin says “I don’t think there's much hope for it” he says this because of how these things may be improvements but in the future horrible things are still going to happen. There are
