Audio Book

I love to listen to a audio book while I am knitting or cleaning or whatever and I choose books for a variety of reasons but one of the most consistent reasons is to learn from a different perspective thus...

The first thing that caught my attention about this book is that the main character was born in a iron lung...

 Her mother contracted polio while pregnant with her and although her Dad flaked out her Mom with help from a black woman raises her. The time frame of the story is1964 and segregation is still a part of life.......At one point they spoke of "Freedom summer".  I was not familiar with this so looked it all up and what a lot of info that lead me to...................

 

Although in 1865 a Republican congress passed the 14th amendment providing full civil rights to blacks the democrats created all sorts of tactics to keep the blacks from voting such as the Ku Kux Klan and poll taxes, literacy tests, white only primaries, physical intimidation, and restrictive eligibility regulations to name a few and because of the blatant attempt to nullify the 14th amendment the Republican congress passed the 15th amendment and not one democrat voted for it. Here it is 1964 and the blacks were are still not able to vote freely and one of the characters gets involved in "Freedom Summer" where some were injured and even killed.

 

From today's perspective it is portrayed that it is the Republicans that want to restrain the black vote and we saw some  intimidation by the democrat's against the white vote (no one called it that)....

 

 

 

It is amazing how things have changed....from 1964 when the black people were still fighting just for the right to vote to 2012 where recent news showed us this lady...

Not seeing any problem in voting six times.

From one extreme to the next...isn't there any common sense out there?

 

Note: Although the book is not a fast moving book it was interesting because of the different life styles so it hit the spot for me.