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Four generations of black Americans discuss: Will George Floyd's death bring change?
Jun 6, 2020
Mass protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, have spread to dozens of cities in the United States and around the world.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked four black Americans of different generations to reflect on the protests and those of the past.
We spoke to Charles Person, 77, a leading civil rights activist who as a teenager in 1961 joined the original 13 'Freedom Riders' on a journey to Jackson, Mississippi, to occupy segregated waiting areas.
Jackson, 55, participated in the 1991 riots in Los Angeles sparked by the beating of Rodney King by police.
His daughter, 22-year-old Armonee Jackson, recently graduated from Arizona University and led a protest for the first time in Phoenix, Arizona, following the death of Floyd.
Chris Shelton, 48, took part in a protest for the first time in Indiana, Indianapolis, last week.
Are you hopeful that George Floyd’s death will bring real change?
Jackson: Here we are in a pandemic. Everyone was sitting here, couldn't go out, and then you see for nine minutes this man (police officer) had his knee on the guy's (Floyd) neck. And you see the man die right on video. I think that angered more than just black people, that angered every nationality. I think that's what changed. That's the generational change.
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