Looking back on his activism in San Diego, Hal Brown, 87, says people should celebrate the progress since the days when he organized protests against SDG&E, Bank of America and the San Diego Zoo — trying to get them to simply employ and serve Black people.
It’s a typical fall day in 1966 San Diego. But the mild, sun-soaked day belies the political temperature of the times.
After reading these headlines, Harold “Hal” Brown takes a deep breath and heads towards San Diego's KSDO radio station.As a Black man and co-founder of the San Diego chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality , an interracial civil rights group, Brown isn’t surprised by the unrest. However, as the co-host of the KSDO live call-in show,"Viewpoints," he’s girding for a tense discussion.
When Shavers asks one caller if he thinks Black people are citizens of America, the man answers in the affirmative. But he adds he doesn’t think his rights should be impinged when it comes to who he rents his home to or the bussing of school children. “My big awakening came when I was just graduating from San Diego State,” he recalled. “I began to be associated with some people who were challenging segregation and discrimination.”
Although Brown considers it a mistake to ignore the progress that has been made, he’s also quick to say it has been achingly slow and in recent times we’ve gone backward.
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