United Methodist Women member Diane Johnson recounts growing up in the civil rights era and calls for solidarity with today’s activists.
On the day Michael Brown was shot, Saturday, August 9, 2014, my daughter, Tammie Holland, and I were at a Ferguson drive-in restaurant purchasing sodas. Tammie received a post on social media stating that the police had just shot someone around the corner. I had the sense that something terrible had happened and wanted to go see, but Tammie was hesitant. I was able to convince her that we needed to witness what was causing hundreds of people to surround the area.
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