The movie Hairspray is a story set in the 1960’s about Tracy Turnblad and her friends. This is a time within the Civil Rights movement and the movie does a good job displaying what it was like for colored people and white people during that time. The whole movie is based around a popular TV dance show called the “Corny Collins Show” and how it was segregated. We see segregation everywhere in this film, the blacks not being able to dance on the show with their white peers, separate parts of town for each race and even segregation in the schools detention and classrooms. This is a good movie to analyze with the topics we learned about in class because it is specifically set within the Civil Rights Movement time period. We have learned about how the African American community has been a victim to “othering” and social injustices and we see those in the movie. There is even a scene where Tracy goes to protest in one of MLK’s walks for justice amongst the African American community. This is a big scene because we see Tracy sticking up for social equality and the police assault her and label her as a trader. We can relate this to our current time today with the Black Lives Matter movement. Now in todays age we see a lot more white people (and other races) walking with their black peers for equality than we did in the 60’s, but these white people still are faced with their white peers judgments. I think we have come a long ways since the films 1960’s equality movements but as we see there is still a lot of work to be done to this day. For the black community to be able to have the same equalities and freedoms white people have we need more people like Tracy Turnblad to stand up for these communities and share that we all deserve equal rights and opportunities.