ard church and religion, where they believed GOD is savior and since during that time the country was getting more corrupted day by day, it was their belief for survival. Since Dexters parents were really religious, they attended church very often. We shared the same religious roots, we shared the same fate and the same rituals with black people, but we didnt workshop together. (Dextra) However Dextra mentions that even with the same common morals, blacks and whites yet did not get along and there are still in arguments with each other.In the late 1940s, after WWII, Dextras parents get married. Her mother worked in Texas in so called Mill Blocks. Her father grow up in Southern Missouri in family of 13 children. He dropped out from the school and worked on the fields. As a kid whose fathers ancestors were slave owners during 1800s, Dextra was raised to be scared of black people and she was told that she is different, smarter, and that she is in great danger if she is around black people. Few years before Dextra was born parents moved toward west chasing for the better future. Her mother became the first women butcher in Safe Way while her father was working in refinery. With both of Dextras parents working hard for survival, they managed to buy a little house (little homes- shanties) in the mid lower class of the town which was previously owned by mill owners. By the time Dextra was 4 years old in 1955, the neighborhood started to be integrated with other races such as Blacks and Koreans. They lived right next to railroad and Country Jail.History will be the ultimate judge of the BPP's place in the Black Liberation Movement (BLM). Although the BPP made serious errors, it also gained a considerable measure of success and made several significant new contributions to the BLM. The final judgment of history may very well show that in its own way the BPP added the final ingredient to the Black Agenda necessary to attain real freedom: armed s...
