When I asked my grandma how things were during the Civil Rights movement when she was young, she said many different things. She said that it was sad that blacks and whites weren’t allowed to go to the same school and couldn’t do anything together. There was people dying and acting crazy everyday . She said there were many different things going on.
It didn’t really bother her that blacks and whites didn’t go to the same school because she never went to school with them, but she was so young she didn’t really understand what was going on. So she was unsure what was really going on besides what was on the t.v. and news.
She says she remembers when Martin Luther King Jr died it was all over the t.v. and news. That was all you heard about she didn’t really know what to expect. After all that everything was starting to change: They were slowly putting blacks and whites in the same school just to see how each of them would react to each other. It wasn’t a good experience she says. Things got worse. There was no peace in schools and you couldn’t learn anything because there was so much stuff going on in the class.
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