HW 30a: Response to June Cross

While driving through the state of New Hampshire I decided to stop into the city of Keene and attend the Keene State College Citizenship Symposium. I attended the symposium entitled “Secret Daughter”, this was a documentary done by June Cross. She introduced the film and let the audience embrace the documentary, and form their own opinions on what it meant. The documentary took us on a journey through June Cross’s adolescence and how it was out of the ordinary compared to others. June Cross is black and has a white mother and black father, and back in the mid 1900’s this seemed to pose a problem with social status. June’s parents separated when she was very young and June would not see her dad throughout her childhood. But June’s mother could not handle having a black daughter and would have to ship June away to a black family. It is a very intriguing story because it shows the relationship between mother and daughter and how the color of someone’s skin can affect that relationship. I liked the structure and opinions expressed in this film and how the main character June Cross is so open about her feelings and events that took place in her life.