This is Karen Hunter and then at the age of 19 got involved with the Student Unviolent Coordinating Committee.

And through that effort, I began to work to try to see that all people were treated equal, that we all were as one and to do away

with racism and discrimination.

You got to fight.

You got to fight for every breath of your life

and stand up for what is right and what is just. My father from an early age used to say, especially to his son.

I'm the youngest of 12 children that were seven boys in five years.

And he used to say it's special to his boys.

So you have to stand up for what is right.

He said, even if you are the only one that is standing, you have to

stand there alone until others get the knowledge, the understanding, and the courage to stand with you.

So I'm in the process of attempting to stand.

So when I look at our brothers and sisters that's from South and Central America and how they

attempted to be barred from coming into this country. I realized that at one particular

time, especially the southern part of the United States. That was land that there are four parents,

own, worked, and made a living for themselves and their family.

And now we find people in this country attempting to keep them out. And to me, they're just simply attempting to

come back home because as I said, that part of the United States was illegally, stole and hijacked in one sense from the people that is in South and Central America.

They have a right to come back home and utilize that land which their

four parents once occupied and I feel that it is my obligation to aid and assist do all I can to help them overcome that very

because as I was saying

the same things that black people have had to go through in this country. We find that people from South and Central America

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