https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd Made by Owen, Zach, Gordon, and Alaina en-us 2017-03-22 21:50:44 UTC 2023-07-02 23:29:39 UTC hello@padlet.com hurricanefan97 https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/161979673 2017-03-22 21:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/161979673 hurricanefan97 https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/161979962 In the article posted, it goes into depth about a situation in which the color barrier was in question during the war. W. Hallett Greene was a black man who was fully capable of joining the Signal Corps. As you may have already read Greene graduated at the top of his class from the College of the City of New-York and passed every admission test to get into the Corps. He was deserving of this opportunity at hand and worked extremely hard for it. Unfortunately, General Hazen denied this action due to the color of his skin. He believed this was not in the best interest for the Corps. Why did he do this you might ask? During this time period blacks were segregated into their own groups during wars having no mixed races. General Hazen was just following how they always did it recently in the Corps, that blacks do not belong with whites in war because it wouldn't work out, making the claim that he did nothing wrong. You could make the argument for him showing that black regiments were doing great things for the Corps, why mess that up? We do not agree with the logic of segregating by race. This was a big issue in the U.S. at the time. Secretary Lincoln would begin to take steps in the right direction. Upon General Hazen's request that Greene should not be allowed into the Signal Corps, he told Hazen and any other officers that race would no longer be an acceptable attribute to deny someone from joining the Signal Corps. He did add that if race would be a factor for acceptance into other branches of the army this would not apply to the Signal Corps because it is mostly comprised of Civil duties. We agree with what Lincoln said about race not effecting the Signal corps, but when he goes on about other branches of the army and how there can be a racial barrier, that is where we disagree. We believe there should be no racial barrier in the army at all. We believe this because there has already been instances where black regiments have been very successful. Then we ask why would race be a problem if all these blacks fighting for us have been doing a good job this whole time? Wouldn't combining be better for the cause? A better solution would be combining the two races and erase the social barrier, which Lincoln wants to do, it would be a good progression in solving the whole situation on race. Also, it would solve whole race barrier problem in the army. ]]> 2017-03-22 21:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/161979962 hurricanefan97 https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/162003640 As you can see in the picture below, the army, specifically the Signal Corps, is trying to recruit more members. This explains our argument because this poster was in relation to allowing blacks in now. As you can see all it is asking for is to have the certain requirements needed to be involved in the civil duties the Signal Cops does. Nothing to do with race like how it should be. Race doesn't mean you are not a good electrician, mechanic, etc. This is how all of the branches of the army later became. Nothing to do with race it was either you were fit for the army or not. Lincoln should have told every branch of the army that the criteria to be allowed to help in war should be there intelligence and physical abilities allowing them to contribute in a way that would make the U.S proud. Again we do not blame General Hazen for thinking this way, this was how people in the U.S were brought up to think and act. With the growing changes happening in the U.S this was a necessary step in the right direction to allow blacks to help in any branch of the Army. This allows black people to fight for their country next to fellow Americans willing to die for American citizens and their rights Blacks even wanting to fight for what little rights they had showed that they deserved equality in a current unequal society. Combining the two races would ease equality into common American society.]]> 2017-03-23 01:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/162003640 hurricanefan97 https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/162284680 2017-03-23 22:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/162284680 alainawalls https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/162374655 The video is separated in to three parts: about the regiment and the battle that takes place, how the regiment becomes inspirations, and how Lincoln was deeply affected and white people in the North changed their minds about AAs. 
0:00-1:13
This section was about the regiment. They were the first AA regiment and grew to have 600 soldiers. The battle that takes places is at Fort Wagner. During the battle, half the men from the regiment and their Colonel had died, but they persisted to take down the Confederates and succeeded doing so.
1:25-1:56
This part of the video was how one man in the regiment became a inspiration by doing the most simple and honoring act, holding the flag up after the flag bearer died.  Afterwards the soldier said to his men, "Boys, the ole flag never touched the ground." From that moment onward, he became an inspiration to his men, AAs in the nation, and the nation as whole.
2:04-end
This section features how the regiment changed how AAs were going to be treated. First, it states how Lincoln was deeply affected by the commitment the regiment showed during the war and the battle featured and all AA soldiers. Another feature of this section is that the regiment influenced whites in the North to see AAs in military service differently. They were influenced to see that AAs were capable of taking on military service.
Overall, the video has a theme commitment in inspiration. These men were committed to their causes. They stuck around even when they saw death all around them. They inspired America by holding up the flag during a battle. They inspired other AAs by showing that they can do what white people say they can't. Both of these themes supports our argument and Lincoln's argument to an extent. They support them by showing that AAs can do military service and that a race barrier would limit them from protecting our country and fighting for what is right.]]> 2017-03-24 11:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hurricanefan97/jr0bvl2b90kd/wish/162374655