The Untold Strength of the Civil Rights Movement: How They Kept Their Cool.

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]A lot of our African-American um community, you look back, my question is during those times when you're at the lunch counter and you had the the white people spitting on you, cursing you out, maybe hitting you, doing all of that stuff to you.

[00:00:22]How difficult and how did you discipline yourself not to retaliate because I know in today's society we look back and we all be like, "Ooh, that was something." Yeah.

[00:00:34]Yeah.

[00:00:34]Believe it or not, our children tell us the same thing that Mom, Dad, how did y'all do that? How did y'all accept that? But, um and what you were saying that we were just dedicated and wanted to become with a change in our life because history Knowing your history makes you want to do better.