5/23/2023 0 Comments March book 1![]() ![]() It just never dawned on me that many of today’s young adults have parents that were too young to recall Jim Crow’s death rattle. But when I realized how many Americans don’t have a close connection to the Civil Rights Movement, I was honestly shocked at my own cluelessness. As I age, events like realizing kids born in 1992 can now legally purchase alcohol or realizing many of my peers have never heard of Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats stop me in my tracks. Either through my mother thwarting my attempts at avoiding school with her “in my day” rebuttals or through stories told during daily crappie- fishing excursions with my grandmother, I learned important lessons about American history through oral history. ![]() My mother helped integrate a school in small town Arkansas and her mother served as a social worker of sorts for a five county area in southwest Arkansas. My knowledge of social change in America (in particular, the Civil Rights Movement) was personalized at a young age by my mother and grandmother. ![]()
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