Was your family active in Civil Rights or Black Power movements?

[Commish]

Did your family ever sit you down and discuss what their thoughts were (at the time)about the Civil Rights Movement or the Black Power Movement? and their level of involvement?

Pops got involved with the US Organization when he was in the Navy during the tail end of the CRM/BPM. From there, joined the NOI then went Orthodox Islam.

I can't remember if he ever told me about his level of involvement during that time, but I got some old flicks of him and his homies rocking dashikis, Black fist necklaces, naturals, etc..

Perhaps, I will ask him about it whenever I get a chance to visit him sometime in the future.

 

[Easy-E]

Lot of stories like that..... and I mean a lot

Your last name is currently Williams, but realized it used to be Simmons and your great grand daddy had to change y’alls last name because he baptized a honkey with the wrath of Odin because that cracker wouldn’t pay what he owed for services/goods rendered....... and lil nikkas got the nerve to say shyt is just as bad as it was 60 years ago...

My Paw took his and a lot of my Grandmother's family.



shyt is real. I miss him. Tough as nails.

 

[EndDomination]

Yeah, they were.
In everything from organizing, to rallying union members, my grandfather and grandmother were some of the first teaching Black History at their respective schools, one of my paternal uncles was lynched after resisting cacs in Alabama.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

My dad is from this little town in NC called Kernersville. He told me a story how they used to walk around that whole town, and one time it was nightime and he and my uncle were cutting through the woods and saw a KKK rally where there was a burning cross. He said they turned around and ran home so fast.

My grandpa had his sister run off the road and killed by some klansmen. He’s a cold man, and to this day he isn’t very fond of white folks. Still calls them crackers and everything.

If you were down south during that time, you went through it and more than likely you took part in some protest, rally, or had some bad interaction with white folks.

 

[A.R.$]

I actually get a little sad thinking about the fact that my grandparents on my father side were sharecroppers, in South Carolina close to a century after slavery was “abolished”. Thankfully they were able to own their land and house when it was all said and done.

 

[Whogivesafuck]

Yeah I talked about this before. Pops desegregated Arlington College(uta) in Texas in 62 or 63.He also moved to cali and attended long beach state univ and joined the black student union. Him and his classmates would organize concerts to raise money for the free huey campaign.Grandpa owned a landscaping business in Compton. He was active in helping Doris Davis become the first black women elected mayor of Compton. He also organized and donated for this brother named Sanders who was running for city treasurer. I don't remember his first name my mom has a old picture of a block party on Arbutus that my grandpa threw for his campaign.