Didn't have a clue about that part.
I remember the 1960s stunts. I was a part-time resident of Centerville, MA and we went to my grandmother's church in Hyannis - seems they sponsored some of the victims. I was pretty young but had an idea of what was going on as politics and current events were openly discussed in our home. I remember seeing black people in that church for the first time, they were well dressed and the preacher acknowledged them during the service. In my Sunday school class there were two girls from the group, we looked at each other a lot, I have a light olive complexion and back then was deemed "colored". I remember that other people in the church noticed me after that.
My mom, a bigot who was married to a man who looked black-ish and had five kids with him 
, was pissed about them being there.
She called them "freeloaders" and thought they should be shipped back to the south.
It was also after we had spent some time in Memphis, TN and it was not a pleasant stay because of our skin color. My mom was Wisconsin white, most of my siblings are blonde, didn't matter, my dad and I were too dark for the locals and we had to live in a house on a former plantation which was inherited by the slaves and only black people lived there. I remember that place too but it's a long story.
Suffice it to say, I remember the time before the Civil Rights Act and I remember the busing incidents and assassinations of the 60s quite well. The current events are quite stressful for me.
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