My experience as a black girl in the 60S.

♥ "Chocolate Princess". ♥

Hi,


I would like to tell you my personal story. Set in the 60s as a woman who lived a lot of discrimination during this period.

Well, my name is Victoria and I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I was 17 when we started our national campaign of non-violence, because of the racism that "white people" had against all colored people.

I never really understood the reason why my family and I were different from other citizens in our neighborhood.

My mom always tried to explain me the situation with people like us and every morning she would wake me up and tell me that I needed to love myself and that no matter the color of the skin or place we lived, that did not make us unimportant.

When I started the secondary, everything was completely different. Because most of my classmates were white, as white as a sheet and some girls and I were afro-american as always my 7° grade teacher said.

I am not so sure if I want to tell you some of my daily routine as a black woman, due to our nation thought so different about blacks in the sixties and some of you could be feel hurt, but anyway I think that this issue should be always part of our memories.

Even though it was kind of hard for me to understand this, I finally understood that everybody is different. I felt so miserable when I was a young girl, but then everything was so clear.

I had to fight for my freedom, we had to fight against discrimination, we had to fight for respect and for a valuable space in society. That is why we all learned a lesson, the 60s are so important, because we went through a lot of pain and felt underappreciated in our own country. But we are fighters, and we fought and we won.

I think we are a role model for a lot of persons who are clueless about what to do with their lives, people who think that when something wrong happens or something becomes to difficult, they just give up.


See you soon,

Victoria.

August, 21 th.

Martin Luther King, an American Value

The Sixties.

My Experiment.

I want to talk about the decade of the sixties, because of the amazing period in the social, cultural, and political history in the USA.

All my life I have been thinking that some time, maybe in another life, I was a woman who lived in North America. In most of my dreams, I am a professional woman who lived in the sixties and went through the feminist movement that improved the American women’s lives.

I love the sixties, because many of the revolutionary ideas, which began in that decade, are still developing. I think that people who lived in this period of the history are very lucky. They lived very important changes, like the civil rights that began peacefully, with Martin Luther King. Obviously the out-standing women liberation movements, the cold war, and the space race.

Another important movement were the hippies, who were mostly young people who rejected established institutions. They were so opposed to the nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, and they even raised their ideologies about the sexual revolution.

One of the topics that I would like to emphasize is what Martin Luther King Jr. did to give justice for racism, discrimination and segregation in the USA. I loved the way that King appealed to "white Americans" to have tolerance and create conscience among the people in order to have a better nation.

He took the Bible as inspiration for writing his speeches, because he thought that was the greatest source to learn and teach values.

Finally, I can say that the sixties carried all the things relating to crime, drugs abused by the hippies, war with Vietnam, and endless years of complex racial discrimination. Still, because of the sixties, the United States is more open, more tolerant and a free country.

Bitter_Destiny.
August, 9th.


Source From: http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html