documentary film assessment children s march
Watch the film: The CHILDREN’S march
- Watch the film Children’s March
- Answer the assessment questions for the film
Questions:
- Why couldn’t the parents or adults protest? What would happen to them if they did protest?
- What does it mean to “meet violence with nonviolence� What would it look like?
- Gwen Webb says, “A lot of people thought the kids were going to get hurt, but the reality was that we were born black in Alabama and we were going to get hurt if we didn’t do something.†What did she mean by this
- Briefly explain the significance of John F. Kennedy’s speech on TV after the Children’s March.