Black Fathers, NOW! Ep: 61-Coming of Age in the 1960s as a Black Man in Greenwood, MS with Mac McSwine


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Today’s Episode is AWESOME!  We get a history lesson from my Friend and Neighbor Mac McSwine.  Mac is a Retired businessman, Husband, Father, Grandfather and All Around Solid Guy!  In this episode we dive into his experience coming of age in Greenwood Mississippi at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and how all of this has impacted him as a father and Grandfather.  Some of the Things we discuss:

-Finishing HS in 1964 during the historic Voter Registration Movement in Greenwood organized by SNCC

-What the Civil Rights Movement was REALLY about

-Experiences participating in protests and demonstrations

-Civil Disobedience

-Graduating from College the Month After Dr. Martin Luther King, jr was Killed

-His participation in the Poor Peoples Campaign in Washington, DC and so much more…

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Be Blessed, Well and Wise!

Mike D

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