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THE LONG WALK HOME
SUBJECTS --- U.S./Civil Rights, 1945 - 1991 & Alabama;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Female Role Model;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Trustworthiness; Respect.
Age: 12+; MPAA Rating: PG; Drama; 1989; 95 minutes; Color.
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This is a film about the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The focus is on a white middle class family whose members have divergent views on the protest, although the film does reveal some of the sacrifices endured by the black citizens of Montgomery during the boycott.
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to The Long Walk Home helps teachers and parents use this film to reveal how nonviolent civil disobedience works on the mind of the public, including members of the oppressor class. In this case, a white woman becomes convinced that it is not fair to require blacks to sit at the back of the bus. She stands up to the male power structure and all her friends in order to do the right thing and help the protestors.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below selections from the Learning Guide to The Long Walk Home.
The movie shows Mrs. Thompson driving Odessa, her maid, to
and from work. Initially, Odessa sat in the back seat of
the car. It was the custom in the South in the 1950s and
60s that when a white woman drove her black maid to and
from work, the maid sat in the back seat of the car. The
maids were usually too poor to own cars and there was
inadequate public transportation. Therefore, many white
women drove their maids to and from work. But it was not
deemed appropriate for the maid to sit in the front seat
along with her white employer because sitting together in
the front seat of a car implied equality and close
association.
This custom led to some interesting situations. One
anecdote from Tallahassee, Florida, goes like this. An overweight white male newspaper
reporter with a liberal bent and a sense of humor was once
slowly ambling across an intersection. The traffic light
changed while he was still in the middle of the street. A
white woman who was taking her maid home from work was
stopped at the light. The maid was, per custom, in the back seat.
When the light changed, the reporter was
still in the intersection and the woman could not proceed without
running him over. Frustrated, she honked at the reporter. The
reporter, now walking a little faster, went over to the open
rear window of the car and said to the maid, "Madam, please
ask your chauffeur to be more patient!"
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