Speaking or racist cartoons, what are your memories of ?

Question

The Civil Rights Movement? I can remember following it so avidly, being horrified at the church bombings, the march to Selma and the two people killed. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated. It seemed so remote and far away from Canada.

We lived through some really MAJOR history

Answer 1

Yep, our world turned topsy turvy in the 60s.
Loss of our great leaders.
Viet Nam.
The culture movement.
No wonder we all rebelled so much. We had our identity taken from us and we had the re-invent.
The music changing to something fantastic, new rock sounds, new folk songs, and rebellion at the "hard-nosed" elders.
I try to explain this to my grown children but they cannot even comprehend a world such as that. The missiles in Cuba being pointed at us as we all worked or were in school wondering when this was going to happen. The bomb shelters being built.

Answer 2

I have some recollection of the Watts riots; I really don't think I understood it very well. I'm originally from Texas, and Los Angeles seemed worlds away to me. Of course, I was also only about 10 years old then, too, and didn't really understand the politics and racism that fueled those riots. I did know that black people weren't treated right, and using the "n-word" in my home would have been a quick way to get in trouble with my parents. I think, in a way, that hearing about it at the particular time that I did made me fail to learn about it as soon as I could have. I was old enough to know that it was all "scary," but not yet old enough to have the intellectual curiosity to pursue it, so I think I probably pushed it away, and didn't learn the real story until long after people only a little older than myself.

Answer 3

Isotope, we still are living through MAJOR history.

I used to love to hear my grandma tell what life was like when she was a child. She was born in 1883. She lived on the mountain and reared seven children, and most of them were college educated.

She never had an electric iron, never flew on a plane, cooked on a wood stove. But she knew what was going on in the world. They turned their battery-powered radio on once a week to catch up on the news: World War I, the Wall Street Crash, World War II, The Great Depression, Prohibition, Suffrage -- all that was history, too.

And now another generation is making headlines for future generations to read. We can only hope that those future generations live in a free world and can appreciate the sacrifices that were made for them.

Answer 4

I'm 48 years old, and I don't remember it at all. *shrug*

I remember the burning of Los Angeles in 1992, but I think that was more about stupid destructive gits wanting to loot than about civil rights.

Answer 5

I remember the demonstrations,and the window braking, and fires, in a college town about 25 miles from me. It was tense here in the US.

Answer 6

my parents grew up in the segregated south. it's very odd to me that only a generation ago, people were still dealing with that type of legalized discrimination.