Living with Jim Crow series: Interview with my mom, part 1

In The Know with Tony Reeves · Mar 4, 2020 · 9m

You got to do this and you to do this; it was just the way we grew up. I just accepted the fact that we sat at the back of the bus, stand at the back of the line; white folks were first, and we were second. That's just the way it was." For those who grew up during the Jim Crow years, segregation and discrimination was an ingrained way of life. However, this way of life wasn't centuries ago. This way of life occurred after the civil war in the 1860s through the late 1960s. And today, there are many African Americans living who can share stories of their lives and experiences during the…