Civil Rights Oral Histories-Mary Bahr

Yes but. Thank you. He was he loved her dearly and. Notwithstanding all these other issues of worry. He was very proud of her and what she was doing in her thoughts and her her outspokenness. And although he was not himself an outspoken person she says she did it for him as well. And I'm sure she taught him a lot of things by her actions and by her motivation. And he learned so much he learned from her and of course her political her political side when she started getting more and more political with anti-war the anti-war movement and different issues like that it got even heavier for the family. And.

He had he took a lot into consideration because of he had his business or he had his profession. His portrait painting and he had to deal with a lot of people. On that level to get portraits and so forth. None of her activities really interfered with him. But it was always you know well how do people feel and so forth and so on. As far as I'm feeling you know with what I was seeing my mother doing I got into even heavier. Maybe you have your political activities and she did. So my experiences were very different. But she always came to my my support she was always supportive and she didn't have to tell me what to do. But I could always go to her and say Hey mom. You know the police or this or the police or that she understood that she had a lot more

experiences and what I'll never know she didn't talk directly to me about her every day activities. But she was there for me and for him. And I thank you thank you thank you for having you here today. You can get through it.