A White Perspective Of Civil Rights Movement
For some time I have been organizing my thoughts concerning segregation and my personal feelings about the black race. I have a good grasp of what I believe today, but I wanted to have a better understanding of how and why I got here. A black Facebook friend referred me to a video on YouTube, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross 1940 to 1968 , and asked me and others to watch and share our thoughts. I have concluded my parents actions, and not so much their words, have much to do with how I feel about race. I was born in 1945 so I lived through much of this time period. It was a good part of my formative years. I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. My father and mother grew up during the depression. When the depression started my Dad had enough to eat because of being on a farm in Minnesota. For some time period in the 1930's my Dad spent in the Civilian Conversation Core , CCC Camps, which was a public work relief program operating from 1933 to 1942 in the United