Parents prevent teenager from joining civil rights protests
Worried about violence, Beavers's parents prevented him from joining civil rights protests.
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Oral History Interview with Leroy Beavers, August 8, 2002. Interview R-0170. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- KIERAN TAYLOR:
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Do you remember the protests? I mean, it would've been a
young teenager.
- LEROY BEAVERS, JR.:
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I was between thirteen and seventeen years old. I remember.
- KIERAN TAYLOR:
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Would you have gone down to Broughton Street to be part of the protests?
- LEROY BEAVERS, JR.:
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Yeah, my mother and father wouldn't let me. They were scared
for me because they didn't want anything to—I was
Viola Beaver's baby boy, her only one. A lot of young black
men were getting killed and getting put in jail and getting misused, and
my mother just, I sort of stay away from that. I don't want
you to be a part of that. Don't do that because, I sort of
obliged her to that. Basically I had to work.