Greensboro

Black Americans were the only racial or ethnic group brought to America against their will. Africans came to be captured and sent to the Western Hemisphere as slaves (Sowell 184). They were submitted to forced labor and had no human rights. They were the property of their masters, an object that could be bought, sold, given or mortgaged according to their masters will (Maameri 125).Colonial America depended on agriculture and the near- decimation of the native Indians by warfare and diseases…

politics, and black power. The 1960’s counterculture symbolically began on February 2, 1960 when four African-American students did a sit in at a lunch counter (The Sixties). These students were at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro. Their actions to sit at the lunch counter and not move until they were served, showed a want for change in the societal norms of the community. Other sit ins started to occur throughout the United States to push for…

Introduction “Selma,” I think while meaning well, is another piece of counter revolutionary, ruling class propaganda. It is like a “how not to manual” in how not to make revolution, then and now. I was an activist in the days in question in this movie and all the thousands of revolutionary voices that were raised, back in the day, are more thoroughly crushed in this film than all the might of U.S. imperialist military, police, intelligence and public opinion creating machines…