CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THE MID 20TH CENTURY BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY
During this time of controversies of equal rights, the African-Americans freedom was being tried for the last time. ... As a young African-American it was hard growing up with civil right in your everyday life. ... Compton a white union worker at BF Goodrich, and John England an African-American was a teenager during the Civil Rights Movement, but know a Judge in Central Alabama. Both men shared living in this time period; however, lived different lives. ... Compton born in Tuscaloosa October 23rd 1931, had chose neither side in the civil rights movement, but was forced to live as though talking to African-Americans was considered unorthodox. ... Compton was 35 when the Civil Rights movement started locally around him. He had African-American friends at work but they could not socialize after work, until after the Civil Rights Movement was over.