Dad said, “You were here first.”

Joan Fumetti
Windsor Heights, IA

Traveling from our white Iowa world through the South in 1961 we stopped at a roadside food establishment. Dad went to get in line behind a black man, who started to give up his spot.. I didn’t understand at the time but I could feel that something significant had happened.


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