In-Class Write
1. The film, The Butler , exhibits the importance of the Civil Rights movement in the point of view from an African American house servant who is exposed to the political situations the US is having throughout the mid to late 1900s. A person can and will learn what the African American community was feeling from these laws made by the white supremacists through the film. The audience learns and experiences the revolution the Civil Rights movement made, how troublesome and brutal it was to all society and what it took to make it happen. Cecil Gaines’ son, Louis Gaines, was a participant of the Black Panther Party and a strong protestor to oppression, which shows perspective of what these people were fighting for and why. Cecil Gaines also serves multiple presidents, who were strong influencers of this movement. They set the changing laws and evolving social statuses. The other son, Charlie Gaines, also fought in Vietnam and taught how the wars greatly impacted the minds of the pres...
