The second book was just as intense as the first. You saw just how much the Jim Crow laws affected people of color. In the book, I got this feeling that white people believed that Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional because why else would they be so adamant about the rules, then it could also be that people are just hateful and racist. In March Eugene Bull, the chief of the police department hated black people enough to give the Klu Klux Klan 15 minutes to do whatever they would like to the bus of freedom fighters. That type of hatred isn’t something that appears out of nowhere but is harbored by generations and generations. 

Another thing that the Jim Crow laws did was boost the confidence of white people to make them think they were superior to black people or people who wanted equal rights for all. When they finally made it to Montgomery, Alabama and as soon as they get off the bus they were bombarded by an angry mob of white people. They would beat them with bats, scream out racial slurs, and even get their kids to beat the freedom fighters. They treated this day as if it was a day at the fair, smiling and grinning as if the things they were doing were humane in the slightest. 

This is our history, unfortunately. Even though the school system is trying to hide it and cover up the past the curtains will eventually open and the newer generation will see the real America. The America that found it more difficult to give African Americans/ black people rights than anything else. The America that wanted to keep them as slaves or something much more keen to animals depriving them of their rights. And as the saying goes, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”