The Long Walk Home ~Robynღ

In the movie The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldberg, the part that I liked the most was when all of the black people joined hands and started singing. I thought that was really special because they were standing up for their civil rights, that moment made me feel happy for them. I didn't like the part when the three white boys beat up that black girl, but I liked it when another black boy came running up to the white boys to stand up for the black girl, even though he got badly hurt. I thought it was really brave of him to do that.

Bance Island Yale Site Fact ~Robynღ

Between about 1750 and 1800, Bance Island was one of the major slave trading operations on the Rice Coast of West Africa. Now, it is a small island, but back then it was a strategic point.
(www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/03.htm)

Fact about Slavery ~Robynღ

By 1850, 92 percent of all American blacks were concentrated in the South, and of this group approximately 95 percent were slaves.