Complex sentence: His family moved north to Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the height of the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s and he attended Ottawa Hills High School where he was a member of the debut team, newspaper and yearbook staff.
Split into simpler sentences: His family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the height of the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s. There he attended Ottawa Hills High School where he was a member of the debut team, and on the newspaper and yearbook staff.