Ms.Powell

Walking the different marches for the civil right movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr ., was fun but a cruel experience. I felt good to be a part of something really good. The cruel things that we experience were beyond wickedness. The Klansman threw rocks bottle and anything they could find to hurt us. The mayor of a town threatened to arrest anyone who attacked us. We were very surprise that he, the mayor, would do that for us but we were also pleased. The civil right movement was a non-violence movement that tries to get the white folk to treat us equal as them. Participating in the civil right movement was a great thing for my brother and I because, we get have a scholarship fund in our name honoring us for all our years working at the school were are employed at. I guess it true that your past determine your future.
 * The Civil Right Movement **

Journey Though Education My education was not good because our parent were not to supported because they believed that education was one of the important thing in life. They believe that having an education was not important because they have been share cropping for many generations. We have been share cropping with a man named Mr. Johnson. We have made plans to move but our family has to play off debt for past generations. My education was not all that great for the simple fact of my parent not learning how to read and write. I was six when I started school, School was hard back in those days because we got to school whenever we could because we always had thing to do around the house. Getting chores down was way more important than our education however, my father and mother always loved it when we read to them and taught them how to write their signature and read letters. When I was in high school I figured out that it was unfair to treat black people the way they did, I found out that that other places up north were all treated equal and that how I wanted to be just like them.

Klansmen The cruelty of the Klansmen makes me sick. They needlessly tortured and killed my father. The Klansmen are a group of white people who do evil stuff to black people, the Klansmen are unpredictable and usual come out at night. The Klansmen are could be any white person they could be a police a lawyer or anyone that the reason why whenever they do hurt we do not call the police. When the Klansmen killed my father I was right there looking out the window and saw ever thing happen it was the most horrifying thing of my life. It was a Saturday Moring and my parent were going to get me a birthday present and as the approached the drive way a teen white male try attempted to run over my father and mother. When my parents started running he hid my mother I a ditch and the teen ran over my dad like he was a dog. When my father got hit he was still alive but seriously hurt then after the teenager reversed and ran over my father again then the teen notice that my father was stuck under his car so he just drove off allowing my father to crumb up like paper.