Personal Narrative: The Struggle For Civil Rights

“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.” -Maya Angelou Equal rights were things that seemed to be inexistent back in the 1960’s when all blacks were segregated from the whites. No matter who you were, if you were black, you did not get treated fairly. The whites were given freedom to do whatever they please and get any job they wanted, but me being black did not have it as easy. During my childhood, my family had a hard time earning enough money just to keep getting our everyday needs. Being we had to work hard, I as well had to get a job in order to support living a healthy lifestyle. It was not easy having to get a job so early in my life, but it taught me that some things in life, you just have to work a little harder for. If everyone had equality, there would have been many more ways to find comfort and peace between people of different cultures and races. Segregation made it a lot harder to get to town and have a successful job or household for a family. …show more content…
At that point, when I was asked to get up and move, my mind told me that I don’t have to go anywhere. I automatically went into an explanation of why everyone deserves to have equality and not have to suffer. The way Maya Angelou put into words how equal rights, fair play, and justice all share a similarity with air was a way to show people how everyone deserves to be treated the same. During the civil rights movement, blacks and whites didn’t have the same privileges, therefore nobody truly had