truggle; and that this was the great turning point which ultimately set the Black Liberation Movement on the final road to victory. In 1962 Dextra went to black high school. Again anxiety, feeling like a minority and being one at the same time, physical difference just could not fit with blacks. The black guys were constantly beating her up because she was different. Some of the black kids who were her friends she played with and stayed by her, unlike some others who did not treat her the same and turned their back on her. While being in Junior High years, Martin Luther King the Civil Rights leader got killed. That was also a time when Malcolm X showed up on the scene. She quotes his words Forget the whites, there are all devils! Malcolm was the one who rejected Kings nonviolent approach and called for the separation of blacks from mainstream society. Even Malcolm X was shot to death as he delivered a speech in Manhattans Audobon Ballroom on February 21, 1965 while Dextra was only 14. Just a few years old, not even a grownup person yet Dextra was a part of history of American nation, and movements, which will change people lives forever in the future. While feeling that equality between all people from all races needs to be delivered in her teenager years she was marching proudly for the rights of all people. The interview I had with a mother of my American friend was very interesting and inspiring to me. This interview was such an inspiration, it opened a door beyond the knowledge of the historian books I have read. Speaking with Mrs. Dextra Christiansen made me realize there is more to history then what we read in the books and watch on TV. As a young historian I felt I know too little about a real truth which lies beneath the dusty historian papers and books. I am glad that I had expanded my views on some of the major historical events in American History and that I could share some magnificent moments with my interviewee History ...
