Charles Turner discusses his experiences with racism and discrimination during his lifetime in New York and Charlotte, where he moved to in 1961. He recounts how he first experienced racism while traveling through other parts of the South as part of a Johnson C. Smith University athletic team and seeing Malcolm X speak for the first time at Johnson C. Smith. He describes the influence that Malcolm X's ideas had on him and how those ideas served as his introduction to the Civil Rights Movement. Mr. Turner also discusses his interactions with Jesse Jackson while a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and the education of his children.