“I had also learned that the inseparable twin of racial injustice was economic injustice. Although I came from a home of economic security and relative comfort, I could never get out of my mind the economic insecurity of many of my playmates and the tragic poverty of those living around me. During my late teens I worked two summers, against my father’s wishes—he never wanted my brother and me to work around white people because of the oppressive conditions—in a plant that hired both Negroes and whites. Here I saw economic injustice firsthand, and realized that the poor white was exploited just as much as the Negro. Through these early experiences I grew up deeply conscious of the varieties of injustice in our society.” RaceClassPovertyInjusticeAfrican AmericansBlacksRace RelationsRacial InjusticeEconomic InjusticeEconomic Insecurity Book:Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story