Moving Into Integrated School

“After we moved into an integrated school everything changed in a big way.” That's what he grandpa said as he first moved into an integrated school for the first time.

Growing up he was fairly poor. His dad worked very hard “Daddy worked hard and had to because as a black man nothing came easy.”
His mom worked just as hard maybe even harder to make sure her family always had food on there plait, and she went out of her way to make sure that they were happy.

Schools were segregated all the way up until 1954 he was in the sixth/seventh grade(“Integration: 1954 to 1963” 2017). Growing up his aunt was his teacher but growing up he had to call her Mrs.Threatt. When he move into an integrated school “seems like no one like us.” When he moved

into the integrated school his only friend was Ermie Barnett (his future brother in law). Him and Ermie would go to school together until his high school graduation.

He was very inspired by the Martin Luther King Jr. He is still inspired by the things he stood for and the reflection he had on us African Americans. When he went to visit the hotel Martin Luther king jr. died at in memphis he felt like he was in his presence. As a young black man at the time he was changed for the rest of his life. That inspired him to live by This code “Living is Free, Life will cost you.”

When he was man with kids of his own racism for African Americans was still brutal. As his kids was growing up he wanted to make sure they were happy and healthy. He also made sure that they would never feel like he did when he first moved into an integrated school.

His background and growing up in the schools he grew up in helped him build his character as a African American man in the united states.