Friday, April 3, 2009

Prompt #5: Freedom Summer




















Go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/ps_summer.html
Read the account of a "Freedom Summer" volunteer's experiences.

Prompt:

You are a student from Boston who volunteers to help register African Americans in the South to vote. You encounter violent opposition from many. You hear about the murder of three of your fellow volunteers: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chancey. You wonder if you and your friends will face a similar fate. Why is what you are doing worth risking your life? Will you be successful? What do you think will happen?


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7 comments:

  1. Amy LevinApril 3, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    I think that participating in Freedom Summer is worth risking my life because I am helping get Blacks to be able to vote so that there can be people in the federal government and laws passed that will bring change and equality. I think that I will be successful because I will get many black people registered to vote. I think that a lot of volunteers will be injured or die and many blacks will be voters and the blacks will get some kind of a law passed for themselves.

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  2. Mih_YrehnhApril 5, 2009 at 4:22 PM

    I think that what I'm doing is worth risking my life because if i die for such a great cause, people will see it as a martyr because i wasn't doing anything wrong or harming anyone. More people will join to try to help the murders stop. And maybe more people will register to vote, in order to make their voices heard against these murders, plus if someone died for such cause i think i would register in order to prove that they died for something that was worth it.

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  3. AnonymousApril 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM

    Participating in Freedom Summer would be worth risking my life because of what I'm dying for. I'm dying to show people African-Americans have the right to vote. I'm helping African-Americans get closer to their goal which is equality. Considering I believe they deserve it I would help them. Everyone has a right to vote. I do think I will be successful, but I also believe I might be killed. I would be dying for a cause and for me that's enough.

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  4. AnonymousApril 6, 2009 at 5:15 AM

    Freedom Summer wold be worth risking my life. Because the principal goal of this movement is help to the African-American to get the right to vote.However i would get hurt or something bad would happens to me.

    Patricia

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  5. Sean AdleyApril 7, 2009 at 6:32 AM

    The freedom summer is worth doing because the goal of all this to to show that anyone can fight to get there rights and everybody in life should desirve the same rights and the same oppertunites. this is worth it and i have i deep feeling that we will suceed and overcome this war for equality

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  6. AnonymousApril 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    Freedom Summer is worth it because unless African Americans have the support of the public they will never become equals and racism will never end. I think that without our help things would only get worse, everyone deserves the chance to be equal and gain the same experiences as everyone else no matter what their skin color, religion, or background is. I think that people will die but eventually their voices will be heard.

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  7. AnonymousApril 9, 2009 at 12:02 PM

    Freedom summer shows that we want to fight for our rights and we can fight just like anybody else can. although my life is at risk, fighting for something that is important to me is worth it. fellow volunteers of mine have risked t heir lives for their rights and i will do the same. i know we will overcome this war.

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