Here in this country people were separated by color, there was a great visionary named Martin Luther King. He wanted the Negro to be treated the same as the white man. There was segregation in the southern states. I didn’t understand how people could treat another human being that way.
In Wisconsin we didn’t have many Negros. A friend of mine, Ann Wolfe, knew a boy who was black. His name was “Casper” you know, like the cartoon character. He was the first black person that I met since we didn’t have any blacks in our small town of Waukesha.
Casper was fun to take shopping, he was gay and would tell you honestly what looked good on you or not.
Now that I think back he wasn’t allowed to come into the malt shop with us, he had to wait outside and watch us from the window. We didn’t realize then how lucky we were to be born white.
President Johnson signed the "Civil Right's Law" in 1968 a more clarified version of the bill that was signed in 1964, giving all people the right to live where they wanted and to be able to vote, work without discrimination. The Reverend King was shot in Mephis, Tenn. in 1968. He was a great man that had a vision that all people should be treated with respect.
In Wisconsin we didn’t have many Negros. A friend of mine, Ann Wolfe, knew a boy who was black. His name was “Casper” you know, like the cartoon character. He was the first black person that I met since we didn’t have any blacks in our small town of Waukesha.
Casper was fun to take shopping, he was gay and would tell you honestly what looked good on you or not.
Now that I think back he wasn’t allowed to come into the malt shop with us, he had to wait outside and watch us from the window. We didn’t realize then how lucky we were to be born white.
President Johnson signed the "Civil Right's Law" in 1968 a more clarified version of the bill that was signed in 1964, giving all people the right to live where they wanted and to be able to vote, work without discrimination. The Reverend King was shot in Mephis, Tenn. in 1968. He was a great man that had a vision that all people should be treated with respect.
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