1A. The social movement that The Warmth of Other Suns illustrates, is the Great Migration, where after the Civil War the African-American people were stripped of their rights and citizenship as soon as the federal government left the South. The African Americans people were finding it hard to live in the South, because knowing that they are free from the 13th amendment, they were still oppressed by the white ruling class. because of the Jim Crow laws and economic situations, that were created to subjugate them had finally took their toll and they had enough. Moreover, because of treatment they received from whites, triggered a great Exodus of former slaves to the northern cities. People leaving the South in the book were looking for civil rights,
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My overall reaction of the Warmth of Other Suns is awesome eye-opener of the plight of African-Americans to seek out a better life for them and their descendants. The stories that was detailed in the book about lynching was very graphic and sometimes unforgettable which in truth I would like to forget. The thing that surprised me the most in the book was the murder of a boy swimming across a line that was not there, and the white kids thrown rocks at him and drowned him, and surprising nothing happened to the people who killed him and the only one that got arrested was a black person speaking out to the police about fairness of the situation. This all took place in the north this was very surprising.
4 b. An example that can compare to the injustice that is described in the book I read is the mistrial verdict of the South Carolina police officer who was accused of shooting and killing of a black man running away. This leads me to believe that some sort of Jim Crow is alive in South Carolina.
4 c. Reading the warmth of other Suns enhance my understanding of American social welfare history by elucidated the history of the discrimination of African-Americans in US history. And has given me broader understanding of the plights of the African-Americans to seek out civil justice and the intolerance of discriminations against them. Furthermore, it has given me a broader perspective in the development of all the legislations, Supreme Court decisions that was made to capture social
My overall reaction of the Warmth of Other Suns is awesome eye-opener of the plight of African-Americans to seek out a better life for them and their descendants. The stories that was detailed in the book about lynching was very graphic and sometimes unforgettable which in truth I would like to forget. The thing that surprised me the most in the book was the murder of a boy swimming across a line that was not there, and the white kids thrown rocks at him and drowned him, and surprising nothing happened to the people who killed him and the only one that got arrested was a black person speaking out to the police about fairness of the situation. This all took place in the north this was very surprising.
4 b. An example that can compare to the injustice that is described in the book I read is the mistrial verdict of the South Carolina police officer who was accused of shooting and killing of a black man running away. This leads me to believe that some sort of Jim Crow is alive in South Carolina.
4 c. Reading the warmth of other Suns enhance my understanding of American social welfare history by elucidated the history of the discrimination of African-Americans in US history. And has given me broader understanding of the plights of the African-Americans to seek out civil justice and the intolerance of discriminations against them. Furthermore, it has given me a broader perspective in the development of all the legislations, Supreme Court decisions that was made to capture social