Intro

Golden Asro Frinks was known as one of the greatest civil rights activists. Golden Frinks fight for Africa American and American Indian rights. Frinks fight a long side with some of the greatest civil rights leader like Martini Luther King Jr. And many more. Golden Asro Frinks was know as "Mr. Civil rights" for having such a big role in the civil rights movement. Frinks’s career as a civil rights activist began in 1956. Frinks help tons of communities in North Carolina get freedom. Frinks’s style of activism wore down racist political practices, earning him the nickname “The Great Agitator.”(ncpedia.org)

Background

Golden Frinks career as a civil rights activist and organizer began in 1956. Over the next six year Frinks help the town he lived in defeat the unjust practices of Jim Crow by using the tactics and strategies.(ncpedia.org). Frinks led more than a dozen movement and boycotts in his life time.(ncppedia.org). Golden Frinks even work Dr. Martin Luther king Jr.. In 1963 Dr.king selected Golden Frinks to be a field secretary. Frinks and Dr. King lead a walk with each utter help. " The change. Attitudinal change is one thing. Because once you have a couple of days with a community, community begins to understand. One thing about it, in all of my movements, I tried to keep the press with me. I never tried to push the press away. So that the news would get out, whether good or bad. And I would deal with it. That . . . change... the community would change, gradually, and get closer and closer. And I remember in Fuquay-Varina, a group stood back until the next morning . . . [because] they didn’t understand... The next morning they marched out of the town with us, you see.

First they didn’t understand. But they stood back and watched, you know, and see what we were saying... And the black church would open up. We would always find that one church [that] would open up. And then some of them would come to the church and then understand what we were doing, and then they would join in with us."- Golden Asro Frinks.(ncppedia.org).