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 **I think this film is important because it shows the daily lives of people during the civil rights movement and just how they were affected by the boycotts and protests. Often times historical movies tend to focus on major significant events, but A Long Walk Home focused on regular people with the major event as the background.** This makes the movie much more personal as these are just regular people from this time period trying to go about their lives while fighting for equality. It helps viewers understand and empathize with the plight of minority groups throughout history since the characters aren’t some exceptional, unrelatable figures in history. Plus I feel the knowledge it provides on life during civil unrest and the empathy it encourages are more relevant than ever in today’s politically charged climate.  -Purnaja Podduturi **I think this film is important because it shows the daily lives of people during the civil rights movement and just how they were affected by the boycotts and protests. Often times historical movies tend to focus on major significant events, but A Long Walk Home focused on regular people with the major event as the background.** This makes the movie much more personal as these are just regular people from this time period trying to go about their lives while fighting for equality. It helps viewers understand and empathize with the plight of minority groups throughout history since the characters aren’t some exceptional, unrelatable figures in history. Plus I feel the knowledge it provides on life during civil unrest and the empathy it encourages are more relevant than ever in today’s politically charged climate.  -Purnaja Podduturi
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 +The Long Walk Home does a good job of conveying a historic moment from two different stand points and does so realistically. Neither Odessa nor Miriam are presented as fantastic heroes of the past but rather as regular people whose lives happen to lead them to the boycott.  Miriam’s involvement could be argued as solely for inconvenience of losing her long time employee and yet by the end of the film the audience still views her as a martyr.  The violence both of Odessa’s son and the slap Mariam received did feel out of place in this type of film but it was effective at reminding the viewers of how dangerous Birmingham was.  – Janis Shurtleff  
  
 I believe that this film is impactful in explaining the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, racism, and injustices faced by many people in the United States; based solely on the color of their skin. I think that this film points to the bigger picture of African Americans fight to gain equality and a voice in a country that was so bent on denying them those rights. While it may have some details that are fictionalized, it does highlight bigger historical events, and that is why it is so important. -Mariah Morton I believe that this film is impactful in explaining the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, racism, and injustices faced by many people in the United States; based solely on the color of their skin. I think that this film points to the bigger picture of African Americans fight to gain equality and a voice in a country that was so bent on denying them those rights. While it may have some details that are fictionalized, it does highlight bigger historical events, and that is why it is so important. -Mariah Morton
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