The Long Walk Home-Shauna

In the movie, The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldburg, I felt scared when I found Odessi(Whoppi) got on a bus then the white boys started fun of her. Then when the bus stop she get off the bus and then the bus driver said 'Get off from the bus' to the white boys so they get off the bus then they followed her then they again beat her, later her younger brother came to protact her and he got punched and kicked from the boys because of his skin color. But they didn't say anything. I found bleeding on his face. I don't understand those guys they just beat them and I felt really bad and angry.

How did Elijah became a man? - Shauna

I think Elijah became a man when he standing up for what he believed in. To keep their farm so they needed money to pay their taxes. Get thirty-five dollars then they could pay their taxes. He went straight to Mr. Turner. " We ain't going unless we get thirty-five dollars," Elijah said. " Cash money." (pg.101) I think that moment was Elijah became a man when he standing up for what he believed in to pay their taxes.

Jim Crow Laws- Shauna

1. Health Care:
Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.


2. Freedom Of Speech:
Mississippi: Any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

My opinion about Jim Crow Law story- Shauna

I'm a 45 year-old African-American female and I remember at the age of nine years, in a small town Jackson, Missouri. I spent the night with a family member and on Saturday we went to the movies. We paid for our tickets and I began to reach for the door of the movie theatre and was told by a relative, we can't go in that door; we have to enter through this door. I was then led to a side door and up a very dark, narrow set of stairs. I found myself sitting in the balcony of this movie theatre. The white children were seated below. To this day that memory is with me. I don't remember the movie, but I remember that as if were yesterday. I had never experienced anything like that before. I lived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and sat where I wanted to at the movies.


I CAN'T REALLY IMAGINE this she paid her tickets same as what white people paid. But they can't go in that door; they have to enter this door. It was like sat on a side door and up a very dark, narrow set of stairs but white people were sit at the another door as clean. I was REALLY MAD at this moment. And she was 9 years old. Maybe she was just sit there.(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/children.html#18)

How do you feel when Lizzy left with Lem and Joshua? By :Shauna

I felt scared for Lizzy when she left with Lem and Joshua because she could have been caught then she could have been whipped with death like terrible death. On pg.70 " She ran as fast as she could, her feet slapping against the hard road. When she got around the bend, the men were still in sigh, tall and proud. She followed them, never looking back."(pg.70)

Shauna's Muhammad character trait

I think Muhammad was survivor charater trait because he was in a slave ship a month with terrible condition. It was so difficult to breath. On pg.7~8 " He fought against death from breath to breath, trying always to fill his lungs for the next minute of life, trying to ease the pain of the shackles around his legs, trying to think forward to an ending of his torment, trying to think of being free again" ( pg. 7~8)

Shauna's Slave Facts

1.Slave labor made it to mine for expensive metal and to harvest sugar, indigo, and tobacco; slaves taught whites how to raise such crops as rice and indigo.
2.Slaves arrived in Spanish Florida at least a century before 1619 and a lately uncovered census shows that blacks were present in Virginia before 1619.


Slaves worked longer days, more days, and more of their life and when they worked they worked hard and they got whipped andwhipped.

Shauna's "TheGullah Today"

There are many have left the rural areas for jobs in the cities. Young people are attending university and finding their jobs places away from home. Television, telephones, bridges, good roads, and ferries have come to the once, most faint parts of the Gullah area—and many "old-fashioned" habits have been lost. But the Gullah still hold to their special agreement, and they still take pride in their common heritage.