I'm reading a book right now, The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride. It contains a first person account of someone (the Father) who lived through the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi. He was a friend of Medgar Evers. A very good read. I have been struck by the fact that Black people in Mississippi knew they were could be physically injured (to put it mildly) or even killed and still, they demonstrated, they made good trouble, they refused to obey segregationist laws, etc.
I'm reading a book right now, The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride. It contains a first person account of someone (the Father) who lived through the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi. He was a friend of Medgar Evers. A very good read. I have been struck by the fact that Black people in Mississippi knew they were could be physically injured (to put it mildly) or even killed and still, they demonstrated, they made good trouble, they refused to obey segregationist laws, etc.