race, in terms of the legal restrictions on n-americans is fundamentally different, and that is because of actions like these two young girls in st. augustine, florida. lonnie bunch, thank you. my pleasure. i thought i might start with inviting you just to share some reflections of coming up in st. augustine and maybe a little bit about family and schooling and that will sort of help us set the stage for how you emerged as activists in your teenage years. well, coming up in st. augustine, st. augustine to me was a very, very nice, nice town to live in, to grow up in. we had a lot of black businesses at the time that i grew up. washington street was our main street that had a lot of black businesses. when we started in the movement we didn t start off picketing or demonstrating. we would go down to the st. paul s a.m.e. church and sit around and just talk about what we were going to do. you know, that was when school was out. and when we found out that we had someone
didn t realize at the time that they were really part of a transformative struggle. that in essence their work in st. augustine was part of a bigger strategy that really transformed america. the america of today in terms of race, in terms of the legal restrictions on n-americans is fundamentally different, and that is because of actions like these two young girls in st. augustine, florida. lonnie bunch, thank you. my pleasure. i thought i might start with inviting you just to share some reflections of coming up in st. augustine and maybe a little bit about family and schooling and that will sort of help us set the stage for how you emerged as activists in your teenage years. well, coming up in st. augustine, st. augustine to me was a very, very nice, nice town to live in, to grow up in. we had a lot of black businesses at the time that i grew up. washington street was our main street that had a lot of black businesses. when we started in the movement we didn t start o