What Is The Kwame Cannon's Role In The Civil Rights Movement

On the condition that there was a new organization which developed from the Greensboro Association for Poor People (GAPP), new ideologies emerged which was a more narrowed focus on social and economic injustices. This train of thought was common to the entire working class in the region because the individuals who had jobs, were being taught that there were workings of racism that were particularly articulated in the workplace. The newly formed organization was known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO). This documentary is based upon the experience of Kwame Cannon, and how his mother’s involvement as an activist- in the Civil Rights movement, as well as the WVO. Her involvement has shown how the government, as well as the state attempts to keep minorities quiet from being heard in situations where they do not seek justice, and then decide to protest afterwards. In addition to the statement before, Wilena Cannon (Kwame’s mother) being an activist, so to say, gave the city of Greensboro a reason to lock her son away for a very long time on the count that he burglarized six homes. On the …show more content…
The reasoning is because once the minorities taste a hint of freedom, there are other ways which to strip it from them. For example, white Southerners feared slave revolts that much of the Southern criminal justice system was geared towards slavery. This type of policy was made standard for social control. Another reason why incarceration of Africans’ are an important factor is because after being released, the right of these individuals to vote have been vanished; and of course if their right to vote were still granted, it would threaten the nominations of the Republican parties who oppose social programs that would benefit the African