LAPC History Greg Williams Life on the Color Line Discussion
read Williams’s, Life on the Color Line book then answer each question fully with detail.
Information only from the book
pompt:
1. How do you feel about the way Billy/Greg found out his father was considered a Black man, making Billy and Mike legally black as well? Why do you think Buster chose to live for many years passing as a “white Italian” man in the 1940s and 50s? What could a white man do back then in Virginia that a Black man couldn’t?
2. Why do you think Mike struggled more than Billy/Greg growing up? How did Buster treat his sons differently and possibly exacerbate these issues?
3. Why do you think Greg chose to remain in the Black community with a Black identity for the rest of his life and career when he could have easily passed for white?
4. share something from the Life on the Color Line reading that you found surprising or compelling or struggled to understand.
