BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WHERE BLACK Will Still Be BLACK
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This book is autobiographical in nature and is motivated by the fact that its author was fired after working her way up to President of a proprietary college. She begins her story with the fact that from the time she was in the first grade, she had to face the fact that because she was black, limitations were put on her that would not have existed had she not been black. She talks about her escape to Los Angeles, California because she had heard that things were different for blacks in the west. She found out, however, that was not the case. She talks about the Watts Riot and other racially charged events during the civil rights struggle. She tells the history of the civil rights movement, including many famous speeches from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President John F. Kennedy, and other well-known speeches. Her book includes some of the famous derogatory sayings during the civil rights movement, some of which are still used today. She talks about more recent racially changed activities like the Trayvon Martin murder in Florida. She tells the story of the struggle of President Obama in his quest for the presidency and the many challenges he has faced after his election as well as his re-election. This is a must read account of the ongoing civil rights movement. This is a story that had to be told and could only be told by someone who lived through it.
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The irony of this book is to show that fifty years after the 1963 civil rights movement, blacks are still experiencing the same types of problems they experienced in 1963. She talks about how as a college administrator she experienced some of the same types of situations she experienced thirty years earlier when she worked in the motion picture industry at Warner Brothers Studios. In her book, she talks about the Jim Crow laws and the Stand Your Ground laws. She also talks about President Obama’s challenges in becoming the first black president of the United States and his reelection. Her primary point is that there has not been enough change in the area of racial equality in the last fifty years.
About the Author
Much has been written about the south and segregation. Geraldine Smith grew up in the south in the sixties during the height of the civil rights movement. In her book, she gives a firsthand account of what it was like growing up in an era where there were “white” and “colored” signs displayed in full view. Geraldine has a dual bachelor’s degree in English and communications and a master’s degree in education and is presently working on a doctorate degree in human services with an emphasis in nonprofit organizations.