Yesterday we me Mr.Rosco Jones who was number 301 to march in the movement. Mr. Jones snuck into the march. When he was younger he told his grandmother that he wanted to do something to help the cause, during the summer he joined the youth council of the NAACP. Mr. Jones told us the story of James Chaney& Michael Schwerner (Micky). Listening him you could hear his pain about what happened. Mr. Jones was just open to us and I was just drawn in. Mr. Jones said "When people get in your head that's when they control you." That stood out to me because people will try to get in your head and you start to make your opinion agree with what the person wants. You start to value everyone's opinion but your own and then you just stop thinking for yourself. Something else he said was " They would rather pay more money to incarcerate you than to educate you. Mr. Jones explained how they have private jails to place you in and make money from them. He explained how being in jail is just like being a slave. We also went yo the Bryant's grocery where Emmett till was accused of whistling at a white women and I could imagine him and his cousin just walking in that area. That made me emotional because someone could have so much hate to a race and kill a child. Which just proves that hatred cones in many forms.
Breanna Cooper
City Neighbors High School
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