Focus Task!

1. Although racism was an everyday experience, many people tried to win equality for blacks. Soon enough, blacks got the right to vote despite the threat of violence. There were many campaigners trying to win equal rights for blacks. In the early 1950's a girl and her friends tried to integrate schools by going to schools for whites. There was a great amount of effort going on with blacks to have the same rights as whites. Integration was welcomed to schools in some states, after that case [Brown v. Board of Education]. Soon after this, boycotts took place to also help integrate buses. Also there were non-violent protests and conventions going on to help with civil rights during the early 1960's. Along with most blacks trying to make a difference, even some whites helping as well, Martin Luther King Jr. helped make peaceful speeches and helped in boycotts to help make a difference as well.  People were trying to make things equal!

2. Although there were people striving to make a difference, and protesting against the equality that wasn't quite there, I don't think there was enough going on. Yeah, there was non-violent protests, conventions, voting rights were enabled, peaceful speeches, and blacks fighting for integration, I personally don't think there was enough happening. I think there could've been more people striving for equal rights. Also, barely any whites were helping out with this, a lot of them were racist and against the idea of making things equal for everybody. Along with all of this, officers claimed to have helped stop attacks towards blacks, but in reality they were actually attacking them, themselves. So many blacks faced discrimination and didn't have the same opportunities as whites did. All in all, blacks weren't given have the respect as whites were given, and there wasn't enough people fighting for equality. 

3. I personally think that I would have been optimistic about everything because if you have the right state of mind, it can sometimes help, a lot. But then again there wasn't much respect and/or equality amongst everybody so it was a huge downfall on people's view towards the community they were living in or the environment people were growing up in. I think, thinking positively on everything could help a lot, but it doesn't always necessarily help major things, such as civil rights for blacks. So although it's good to stay optimistic, I think back then during the time of all this fighting for civil rights business, there was more things to be pessimistic about, rather than being optimistic.