Chapter 9

In this chapter we find the president giving a speech on the discrimination at the time.

Chapter 8

In Chapter 8, we find President Johnson going to his chopper. Outside the gates of the White House, it was a mix-up of protesters. By that, I mean two different groups of protesters in the same area. One group was protesting against Vietnam, and one for help in Selma. The President's wife said he needed to take action on Selma. "The police were beating innocent blacks expressing their first amendment rights yesterday. We need to do something."

President Johnson addressing the nation after the events in Selma

Chapter 7

In this chapter, Duvy went into a neighborhood bakery and got a free cookie because the owner always gave them out. When he came out of the bakery he saw a Black child and told him he could go in and get a free samples, so he went in. The Black kid came out empty handed. The owner told him they didn't have any free cookies, so he thought they were out. We later learn that the owner just doesn't give cookies to Blacks. She is a racist. That night, Duvy's dad shows his family the news report for the Selma protest (prior to this chapter) and his family gives a common response when shown something Gruesome. (Cringing, saying "Dear lord'"or something etc.) and then his dad gets a call from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Even though the bakery didn't have a sign like this, they acted like they could have. 

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 describes whats going on in Selma at the time. Dorothy had contacted Martin Luther King Jr. about her problems getting registered to vote, and so he came to see her and made plans to march from Selma to Montgomery before Malcolm X does. The march was planned well, but Dr. King wrote it down wrong on his calendar and didn't end up coming. During the march on March 7, 1965, police injured and killed many blacks. This day became known as Bloody Sunday.

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement/videos/bloody-sunday-1965

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 takes place back at Duvy's house in New York. We meet Heidi, their Boxer. Duvy's mom is really stressed out for some reason. They sit down and watch TV, and their dad says they have to make sure to watch the evening news, but didn't say why. The first thing they watch is Batman, then they turn to the news, but there isn't anything interesting on the news. Duvy's dad is upset because it turns out that there was an important Civil Rights march in Selma, Alabama that day for voting rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was even there and got arrested but there was nothing on the news about it.

Chapter 4

In chapter 4, a Black woman named Dorthy Milton, who lived in Selma, Alabama, tried to register to vote. Selma was the MOST segregated place in US history. Her story shows the unreasonable voting process for Blacks at the time. She was forced to wait 3 hours, when no one else was even there in line ahead of her, and then she asked again, and she was forced to pay 5 dollars (expensive at the time, plus it is against the law to have to pay to vote) and go thru a registration. Her husband was fired from his job because she insisted that she be allowed to register to vote.

Selma, Alabama in the 1980s, after the Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 3

In Chapter 3, Duvy talks about himself and the fact that he isn't great at sports, even though he likes them. Duvy actually scores a touchdown in the game, but unfortunately he does it in his own end zone, giving the opposing team the winning point! On the drive back home, Duvy's dad taught him about Malcom X, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan.

KKK in Mississippi in 1978

Poster calling for the end of the Jim Crow "laws"

Malcolm X believed in violence in the face of violence