I interview Kathy E. who was 15 in 1968. She lived in Midtown Memphis in Chickasaw Gardens, which was an upper scale part of town, separate, and quite. She said Memphis was very different than it is today it was like a small big town everyone knew each other. She went to a public school that was all white and went from first grade to twelfth grade. She felt very safe and was a happy go lucky teenager. She rode horses in Collierville most of the time instead of worrying, because Memphis did not have much crime. Today, she has to earn a living and she is more alert of the happenings in the world, but when she was a child she didn't know much of what was happening. She doesn't remember much about the day when Martin. Luther King Jr. was killed, but their was unrest and the garbage strike. When he was assassinated her parents called her and told her to lock the doors and pretend know one was home. She was very scared at this time, but she feels that it was put into her by others. A ground of her friends were in a car and they were attacked by people through bricks and that added to her fear. The people of Memphis were shocked and no one expect so much unrest. Durning that night her parents had trouble coming home because the police blocked some roads and she just stayed home for the next couple of nights because of the fear she had. She never knew much of King before he did because he didn't really effect her life, but when he did she didn't know whether to blame he for the unrest in Memphis and she just wondered why this was happening to the perfect world she had. After this she became more aware of the world and she wanted to learn more, and before then she didn't know any black people just the ones that worked for her family. In the end this caused her to want to know more about the world and what was happening in it.