I'm Glad I Did (2015)
“George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, stood on the steps of the state university to stop two Negro students from registering. It wasn’t until President Kennedy called in the National Guard that Governor Wallace was forced to step aside and let them in. The next day, Medgar Evers, one of the leaders of the NAACP, was shot and killed outside his house in Mississippi. It felt as if the country were losing its mind. I began to tune out my parents’ discussions of the headlines at breakfast. Every...thing was so depressing. But a part of me worried about those students in Alabama. I wondered if I could ever stand up for what I believed in with that much courage.
Good Music wasn’t just a haven where I could forget about all the chaos beyond the Brill Building. It was also a place where nobody seemed to think that skin color was anything to get upset about. Janny and Jules were self-proclaimed “Civil Libertarians” and fierce advocates for Negro rights, but they didn’t have any close colored friends.MoreLess
Good Music wasn’t just a haven where I could forget about all the chaos beyond the Brill Building. It was also a place where nobody seemed to think that skin color was anything to get upset about. Janny and Jules were self-proclaimed “Civil Libertarians” and fierce advocates for Negro rights, but they didn’t have any close colored friends.MoreLess
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