Something went very wrong in the 1950s and 1960s, such that the "sweetest lady" managed to raise feral monster.
Oh, yeah ... That was the so-called "civil" "rights" "movement" ...
Exactly right. It was obvious even in 1969 to this wet-behind-the-ears kid that something had really gone wrong.
Five years before that, when I was 13, I got sucker-punched by a feral in an Ithaca, NY movie theater.