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(47,245 posts) Wed Aug 28, 2013, 04:11 PM Aug 2013

What experience do you have personally to the Civil Rights struggle? [View all]

In my case, none, since we were isolated from it. (The closest it got to us was the Milwaukee race riots, 60 miles south.)

I had a number of relatives who called MLK a "communist," blamed him for the riots, and the day he was killed laughed about him "being in hell now since he upset God's plan."

It wasn't until years later I read about the March and such, and saw films of what blacks went through.

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What experience do you have personally to the Civil Rights struggle? [View all] Archae Aug 2013 OP

I was arrested at 15 NOLALady Aug 2013 #1

None other than learning about it here in the UK dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #2

I was a white child growing up in alsame Aug 2013 #3

Yup, I grew up in South Florida in the '50s and '60s. RebelOne Aug 2013 #4

I guess they were a bit alsame Aug 2013 #6

Not directly nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #5

I remember Jim Crow clearly, as well as a time when .. ananda Aug 2013 #7

I tussled with a White Supremacist once... Cooley Hurd Aug 2013 #8

I marched in one of the early MLK Day parades in New Orleans KamaAina Aug 2013 #9

I marched with John Lewis against voter suppression in Ohio in 2004 pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #10

In a south FL Sears, 5 years old, got in trouble for drinking from the wrong water fountain. MindPilot Aug 2013 #11

I was a lucky member of L.R.Y. olddots Aug 2013 #12

I remember it distinctly. I grew up in the 60's and experienced plenty of racism. Jazzgirl Aug 2013 #13

Mississippi Delta, 1968. DevonRex Aug 2013 #14

I drove a 1953 Chrysler New Yorker to MineralMan Aug 2013 #15