This week we will try to understand the complex process of introducing African-Americans into the ranks of the Army of the Great Republic. Further, the Emancipation Proclamation freed many people who signed up to fight for the Blue. The military of the United States of America will be segregated until the Viet Nam War–which was actually a police action–issues seen in the film are still present today. Even the WWII Tuskegee Airmen had many of the problems that the 54th had. Kareem Abdul–Jabaar, one of the greatest Lakers, wrote a book about his father being a tank commander for General Patton faced a similar situation. The racism that was at the root of American slavery is the issue that Trip and Shaw are talking about "becoming clean". The movie presents many important issues.
Robert Gould Shaw was brought up by a strident abolitionist and Unitarian religious family. While they were well off, it seems that they had raised a son who saw the Union as an entity to save. Ithamer Culbertson, my great-great grandfather, makes an interesting point on his third 4th of July journal entry. He talks about issues about democracy that come up in our movie, ideas Sullivan Ballou mentions in his letter to his wife written just seven days before he gives up all he can give for the United States.
This week you have three choices for the WAYBACK WEDNESDAY; pick one. First, you can choose the 54th Monument. Second, you can choose the last letter that Shaw sent to his wife. Lastly, you can choose a letter from the Harvard archive of all the letters that Colonel Shaw wrote during the Civil War. Below are the links to use, and learn more about the choice you make for the Wayback.
Robert Gould Shaw was brought up by a strident abolitionist and Unitarian religious family. While they were well off, it seems that they had raised a son who saw the Union as an entity to save. Ithamer Culbertson, my great-great grandfather, makes an interesting point on his third 4th of July journal entry. He talks about issues about democracy that come up in our movie, ideas Sullivan Ballou mentions in his letter to his wife written just seven days before he gives up all he can give for the United States.
This week you have three choices for the WAYBACK WEDNESDAY; pick one. First, you can choose the 54th Monument. Second, you can choose the last letter that Shaw sent to his wife. Lastly, you can choose a letter from the Harvard archive of all the letters that Colonel Shaw wrote during the Civil War. Below are the links to use, and learn more about the choice you make for the Wayback.
photo of some of the 54th
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