In How Far Have We Come? written by Wendy Hesford, she writes about her family realizing the oppression that is occurring around them. Her family lived in a secluded area on a hill and they did not know the reality of what was happening down at the bottom of the hill. Living in a place where there were riots, anti-Semitism and racism the Hesford family realized what was important in life, not only to them but for everyone.
Hesford’s family lived in New Jersey where their house was located at the top of a hill in the suburbs of