During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
Respectfully, the civil rights movement for people with disabilities is modeled on the African American civil rights movement. I'm old enough to remember 1964. I was a junior in high school.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.
You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I really had a great appreciation for the struggle that took place.