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PICTURE THIS: When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law during a White House ceremony on July 2, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was looking on. Half a world away in Germany, John Kantara's mother went into labor. He was born a few hours later. But anxiety and a feeling of deep-rooted angst quickly replaced happiness. What would be the prospects of this newborn mixed-race child in Germany of 1964?
Civil Rights
in Postwar Germany to the Present
g By Jeannine Kantara and John A. Kantara
Jeannine and John Kantara, in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which once separated East and West Berlin, welcome readers to their story about the civil rights experiences of Afro-Germans.