1950's

The 1950’s group did a great job at teaching the class. They followed up on communists and went into deeper detail about what they were and how they were affecting America. I thought it was amazing how scared everyone was that the communists would take over America. They told us that if you were even suspected to be a communists they would say it out loud and you would loose you job and people would look down on you as a criminal. This is similar to today, if your are suspected to be a terrorists then you would be investigated and maybe even taken to guantanamal bay. Nobody knew exactly who the communists were but everybody accused everyone else just as long as people didn’t think you were one.
Another big area the 50’s group covered was racism. They did a demonstration to represent the Rosa Parks incident. They asked everyone with slippers to sit on the ground behind the people with shoes who got to sit in chairs. Then we watched a movie in this arrangement. After the movie we talked about what if felt to be in these positions. I had shoes so I got to sit in front on the chairs. It felt good but I did feel bad for the ones who had to sit behind. This is what they wanted us to see. The people who were wearing slippers didn’t like sitting behind us. They felt that wearing shoes didn’t make us better people. Which is true and that’s why the black people wanted an end to racism.