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Butler at the White House - 34 years
Served 8 presidents
Retired as head butler in 1986
- Main character
Beginning:
- 7 years old, cotton field, shot
- House nigger - enter a room let nobody feel you are there
- A humble man
- Refuses to acknowledge that his son joins the freedom riders
End:
- Asks for a raise, salary, equal to the white staffs
- Demonstration, gets arrested
Direct action where some people occupy an area for a protest against an existing problem
Example from the movie:
- Believed Martin Luther King's non-violent campaign had failed
- They were known as the most famous armed organization among the black people
- Used violence as their public stance
- Main character - Cecil's son
Beginning:
- Disagrees with his father
- College in the south - Black Panthers - against Cecil's stance
- Meets a girl from the Black Panthers
- Doesn't talk to his father for some years
End:
- Leaves the Black Panthers
- Completes college
- Makes peace
- Segregation - north and south
- The development in the US
- The Black Panthers - rebellion
In the middle of the movie, sit-in while Cecil serves the president - cross clipping between the scenes and dramatic background music
Positive
The development in the US:
- Beginning, no rights, lived like slaves
- End: Black and white are equal
Cecil visits the president and is welcomed by a white butler