High school helps students shape their young minds and personalities . What people learn and become is significantly impacted by what they were teached in their childhood and teenage years. which later frames their personalities. High schools today focus on the issue of racism. Due to current political circumstances and some race based domestic terrorist organizations.
It is vital to teach our young generations about the inhumanity of racism and where it came from

Books like to kill a mockingbird and the help are accurate depictions on the topic of racism. However, a visual experience enhances the sympathy and absorption of the content. Some students would argue that these books were actually made into movies, however, these adaptations are …show more content…
Where the protagonist, cecil gaines, a young African-American boy is shown working on a plantation with his parents. When his mother is taken into a shack and raped by a white plantation owner. The owner later shoots his father. This scene clearly shows that even though slavery had been banned nationwide in the year 1865. The oppression against black people still did not end. Later Cecil runs away in order to build a better life for himself. A few years past by and he becomes a butler in the White House. At this point Cecil has two children and a wife named Gloria. Cecil’s eldest son, louis, who leaves to go to college, ends up joining the Freedom Riders. A group that included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation. It is pretty ironic that Cecil who serves numerous presidents over time, such as Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan has a son, who is a civil rights activist and goes against the government. Cecil disowns louis for many years after getting sick of his son's actions when louis chose to join the Black Panthers. Who practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based