Two Societies - Document Four Response

Let's who-what-when-where-why this piece. The majority of the writing was selections from interviews, mainly one involving Linda Bryant Hill. She shared her perspective on the success of Dr. King's Chicago marches and also gave a detailed account of her feelings on the cancelation of the Cicero march. Cicero was a community of 15,000 whites who still felt hatred towards blacks. When the six or seven people who showed up for the march actually started to move, the heckling was so bad that it didn't progress. The lesson that we can take from this is that sometimes a leader is more ready to move forward than a community.

The question that I chose to answer is:

4. Hall explains that the Cicero march was not made up of movement people, but was made up of “community people”. What does she mean? How did the differences manifest themselves in Cicero?

Hall's definition of community people can be roughly interpreted as a group of people who share opinions and use their large number of inhabitants to their advantage to get what they want. Cicero was different than Chicago because it was a more condensed group of people who belonged to the same race whereas Chicago was more mixed in its skin color and beliefs. Chicago could be considered more of a movement people because there are more supporters for both and even other sides of the civil right movement. The reason that Cicero is so different than this is because their small population of whites has no other influences from within and therefore their values will remain static and relentless.

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