50 Years Ago: The World in 1963

[life long demo]

27. Thank you for the reminder

I turned 20 in 1963. So I remember all this. I must mention my Mother who was raised in a cocoon of a very large Irish American family. She had no contact with African Americans, hell she had very little contact with Polish Americans, Italian Americans, German Americans, you get the picture. That was still a time of ethnic neighborhoods. But I can remember sitting with my Mother watching our little black and white television at the civil rights struggles, even before 1963. And my Mother, use to comment "why are they doing that to those poor people, that's not right". She knew what was being done to our fellow African American citizens was wrong. To my Mother it wasn't about civil rights, it was about what was right and wrong. And this little woman, at the end of her life at age 91 in a nursing home, was taken care of by a young Haitian woman whom my Mother loved.