Writing My Life Story

I am currently writing my life story as I'm writing it I realized I actually saddle the two eras of the ghetto. 
I was born in 1964 four years before the first changing events of the ghetto The MLK riots of 1968.
I grew up in the 70s in North Braddock PA.  I still remember the good old days before everything went horribly wrong in the Hood .
I was a young adult of 22 when the Hood became the violent war zone it is today. I was old enough to see some horrible stuff like torture. 
Most of our problems started after the MLK riots.  Drugs began to flood the neighborhood and folks in the Hood believe the Government flooded the ghettos with drugs to keep us from causing to many problems for the Country and to keep us quiet.  I have no problem believing them after some things I've seen.
I realized that the story of my life is the story of the ghetto in the second half of the 20th century and the first 17 years of the 21St century.