Oral+History+Reflection

I was surpised to hear so much from my grandparents about the civil rights movement. They gave good feedback on all the questions. Now I know a lot more about the CRM around the nation. My grandparents lived all around the east coast during the Civil Rights movement, and it was great to hear about it from their perspective. My grandparents said that living in on the east coast, there was not a lot of prejudice and discrimination. She remembers that blacks hung out with blacks and whites hung out with whites, but that was about it.

There was not a lot of discrimination in the upper east. My grandparents did not remember being close friends with any blacks, but they were certainley not racists. My grandpa said that before and during the CRM, racial jokes were common. But after the CRM, everyone became more sensitive to that sort of stuff. I am very thankful that my grandparents took the time to answer these questions.