Surge Miller Research Paper

The civil rights movement was a heroic episode in American history. It aimed to give African Americans the same citizenship rights that whites took for granted. There were several issues that happened during this time period such as, segregation, school, integration, problems of poverty, which leads to crimes and broken families. Certain issues were discussed such as the right to vote and segregation. The income of black families is still well below that of whites. The civil rights movement did not achieve equality. The quote “ That all men are created equal” By Thomas Jefferson is a false statement. I decided to interview Serge Miller because he lived in that decade. I think it’s fascinating to me knowing that he taught when the Civil

A lot of people spent the time and got molested. He came home it was about 7 hours away from home. He made a kid drive because he fell asleep in the tunnel. He was very involved during the Civil Rights movement. He took a kid named Melvin who had no place to go. Surge Miller helped Melvin get into the Gunnery but had to take him back because he wasn’t handling his courses. Surge Miller had to carry his luggage with all his suits. On the bottom of the bag was a pistol. There were not demonstrations of the civil rights in town only in school. There was a bathroom in the Gunnery and people would lock others in that bathroom and scared other students. There was some action in the Memorial gym, which was a dorm. Surge got married there. Melvin threatened everyone. There were several other water boys there. There were one or two guys who would hangout around Melvin. The teachers gave a harder time to the blacks during class but in faculty meetings. The teachers didn’t like them but didn’t give them a hard time. I was pleased about the voting act being passed. Surge was just a French teacher. He started off teaching Algebra but he wanted to teach French and was the head of that department. Surge was a very liberal man now. He