Hearing the personal accounts of the violence that went on during the Civil Rights Movement reinforced how powerful that whole era in American history was. Growing up in the south segregation and the Civil Right Movement are common topics that would come out of conversations with my dad or grandparents when they would talk about their experiences in the south. I can't understand how you could hate people so much to commit such atrocious acts. I can honestly say that I can't think of anyone that I hate much less whole groups of people. It takes a lot of time and energy to plan and follow through with these types of bombings. It seems like the klan notoriously does things that are enormous waste of time for the simple fact of trying to hurt others. Its stupid really. Its scary that groups like the klan somehow seem to be able to gather followings of people to join into their causes that aim at holding other groups of people back and in such cowardly ways. Planting bombs or having groups of men lynch one person is pathetic. If you have a real cause to fight for you don't have to do stuff like that.
The families of the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing did such an amazing job of telling the story from their perspective. It would take a lot of healing to be able to discuss what they went through in so much detail. They seemed to understand the larger role that the loss of their daughters played in the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. Instead of giving up their cause like the bombers wanted, what happened to them became motivation for why the movement must continue. Several of the people in the film talked about how although they believed in the cause, they weren't willing to march because of the risks. I wonder how many people who thought that way took more action following this tragedy.
