Babara Sloan
Wallingford, CT
In Myrtle Beach, SC, Mr. Joe White was a local black man who washed windows of many stores, including that of my father. Town borders put all African-American homes outside the city limits. I remember Mr. White on his adult tricycle. There was no high school for Black teens. Most Blacks were not addressed with honorifics. If you look at the map, you see that he is called Mr., while a former mayor, Robert Grissom (Parkway) has no honorific title. Is this equality or inverse respect? I retain a fondness for Mr. White, a man I knew in the 1950’s.
