Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all these things, have these turned out the way you thought at the time theyd turn out . Yes. Have they accomplished what at the time you may have thought they would . Yes in terms of they provided access. I never had to doubt whether i was going to be able to apply to any college i wanted to apply to. It never occurred to me that i would be denied Something Like that education because of limitations that were put in place by law. All that was done, all that was sealed. It never does it mean that i
Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all these things, have these turned out the way you thought at the time theyd turn out . Yes. Have they accomplished what at the time you may have thought they would . Yes in terms of they provided access. I never had to doubt whether i was going to be able to apply to any college i wanted to apply to. It never occurred to me that i would be denied Something Like that education because of limitations that were put in place by law. All that was done, all that was sealed. It never does it mean that i
After the brown case. T but do you have any notions of what it meant in your family, your circle, when it was decided i was born in w3fck9n so therefore i grew up at a time in which itjf wasq assumed ther wereninilp opportunities availa you. My parents were imui i9qm1n they came to this country because i like to say they chose to be americans. They were very patriotic about the same time they also were very cleart eyed about what th country was denying pmplefa lik their4iw3children. Xd 4 idea that we grew up with the understanding that you had toi] fight for almost everythin you got, that people were going and that you shouldnt carry it at way of setting up what your overcomeomo so my father, we ju understood growing up of the 60s, very turbulent, even though by then brown versus boardxd waa given that there was always going to be a fight for something. And that anything worth having was worth 4i hting for. It didnt mean you went aroundr expecting th] d imq of your fellow man and woman
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