SNCC And The Betrayal Of The Kennedy Administration

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as deeper than my mentality at the time allowed me to go, but it was implanted in my mind as I learned about the movement. As I learned about the movement that seed began to flourish. I will not define what I discovered as meaning to the richness of the syntax the elder spoke but simply plant the seed in your mind to flourish.

To the Negro of the movement the 1960’s were a time that gave way to a great struggle. It was a time when to a white man no matter how old a Negro man was his first name became boy and his last became nigger. It was a time that when a Negro who was “tired and needed lodging could not find any in motels on highways or hotels in the city“#. It was a time of colored windows and segregation. The 60’s were a time of depression when a Negro child sought their parents for understanding the laws when they could not be allowed in an amusement park and eat in a diner. Seeking answers to why they were not able to drink from the cleaner water fountain and the parents had to answer, “that’s just the way it isâ€...