Sen. Robert Stewart speaks with family friend on Civil Rights movement in APR story

Sen. Robert Stewart was featured in a story on Alabama Public Radio where he spoke with a family friend about her experience as a participant in the Civil Rights Movement when she was a child. 

Stewart speaks with Gwen Carrington, beginning beginning by her for her actions helping him to become a senator. In the story she said that she had entered R.B. Hudson High School when she became involved in the movement in 1963. 

She said that students were largely involved activism for voting rights to black citizens.

"And my parents were hard working people who knew the danger of the students' movement and I just felt this interest and desire to want to be a part," she told Stewart. 

Though she said it was difficult to entirely understand the situation she still wanted her parents to be able to vote. 

"And so every opportunity I got, whether it was leaving the school and being a part of the training sessions or just the mass meetings it just helped me understand how important it was to carry on that fight," she said. "So we need young people to step up to the plate and be active." 

Listen to the story here on apr.org.