‘Most of the white people in Wilmington couldn’t cross the color line and get anything done’ he said. ‘The Uncle Toms couldn 't do it, because even if the white people heard what they had to say, the black community was not going to follow them. If peacemakers and community builders were going to emerge it would have to be people like us. It might not have helped much, but we had to try’”. Many whites were raised to maintain that separation between races. However, Tyson’s father didn’t view things that way. He was a Methodist minister that believed in equality for all humans. His support for the Civil Rights Movement caused him his job. He was driven out of his church because of his support towards the African …show more content…
Some of those events were the mention of Martin Luther King, which we all know is a public speaker fighting for the lives of African Americans. In our history class we’ve learned the amount of discrimination blacks had to go throug. We’ve also analyzed the time period and how that influenced the people. Reading this book has helped me better understand this time frame, specially in the south. I read through someone 's point of view that actually experienced the time frame instead of reading textbook