How have you benefited from
the civil rights movement?
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We have equal access to public places. We have more opportunities.
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Rasool
Student
Dorchester
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I haven’t really. I was born in England. I don’t have that issue. I’m an outsider looking in.
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Sylvia
Sales Associate
Dorchester
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There are more employment opportunities for me. There are affirmative action programs.
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Pierre Salomon
Student
Roslindale
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It’s changed a lot of things for us. We can go anywhere we want without people trying to kill us. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Rosa Parks — they did a lot for us. We have to move on and not be slaves in our minds.
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Stephanie
Sales
Jamaica Plain
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I haven’t, really. There are still jobs that won’t take me because I’m black. They tell you that you need a college degree, but then they hire other people who don’t have one.
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Roger
Security
Roxbury
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As a non-African American person of color, the movement opened the door for any dialogue regarding other people of color’s rights. All of my rights rest on the shoulders of black people who struggled before me.
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Maanav Thakore
Organizer
Dorchester
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