For the first of my three blog posts reflections, Zakaria and I have decided to create a rap battle between Eugine (Bull) Connor and Martin Luther King. To create this rap battle both of us had to get into the mindset of our characters. I was playing the role of Eugine, while Zak was playing the role of MLk. To get into the mindset of Eugine, I used the video matirial and text material availible to me in my iTunes U course to learn about Eugine.

The fire that we spit in our rap battle took us a long time to write. It was surpisingly difficult to find words that would rhyme, and have them stay in the theme of our story. We spent 2 hours writting our rap, 2 hours filming our video, and roughly an hour to edit.

By the time of the Birmingham Campaign, the effort for Southern civil rights has become a a true mass movement. There have been many events and factors that have contributed to this movement. All of the boycotts, protests, and marches shared a common factor. Non-violence. Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, or other methods, without using violence. In 1954 the brown v.s. Board of Educarion discontinued seragation in public schools. One year after this a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. These events triggered the Civil Rights movement. Following these events came the murder of 14 year old Emmit Till, Montgomery Bus Boycott,  the little rock nine, the lunch counter sit-ins, freedom rides, and the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. The civil rights movement is like a snowball, gaining moment and size the farther it goes along. The only difference is the civil rights movement didn’t crash into a tree.

It is finally come to the time you have been waiting for. The rap battle between Martin Luther King and Eugine (Bull) Connor. I hope you enjoy.