Failed to befriend first black student.
Lynn Scott Cochrane, Washington DC. I grew up in a deeply segregated Charlotte, NC in the 1950s and 60s. When my high school, North Mecklenburg,...
Black horse will ride white horse
Don Pittsburgh, PA Stated in spring of 1963 by negro at the time with no agitation or explanation. As a white person I thought comment...
Whitefish Bay white school white Church
Mark Brandfass. Pittsburgh, PA. In the summer of ’63 my family had just moved to Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. My father was a salesman for Westinghouse...
Now, I can protest that murder
David C. Ruffin Washington, DC I participated in the March on Washington in 1963. I was 18 and home on leave from the Air Force....
1963 Respectful, Uneducated, Dependant, Poor, Grateful, Happy
Louis Wausau, WI 2013 Attitude, Uneducated, Dependant, Poor, Feared, Unhappy
Babies switched at birth. Mine’s black.
Anonymous, Kirkland, WA. In 1963 – yes, 1963! – The Dick Van Dyke show aired an episode where Rob mistakenly thought his new baby had...
Wrong race, Wrong day for fun
Reginald Leroy Johnson, Randallstown, MD. On my birthday in June 1963 my mother decided to take me to Gwynn Oak Amusement Park as birthday gift…...
I’m not colored I’m an American
Ralph Brown (Coach~B :)), Dallas, TX. My six words are in response to these six words: “We don’t allow colored in here” which were said...
Baby born. What color? Healthy girl.
Kessara Eldridge Fredericksburg, VA My aunt – Irish/German ancestry married a Cape Verdean man. When they had their first child, my cousin, my grandfather didn’t...
“How we get along in Washington, D.C.!”
Isabel “Scottie” Dalsimer Alexandria, VA It was a bright and sunny day in August 1963. I was 25 years old and just back from a...
I listened in apartheid South Africa
Ann Karson Asheville, NC In 1963, I was an active member of the Liberal Party of South Africa, a small, multi-racial group, a political party...
Thank God for Bull Connor’s actions.
Kelly Ft. Myers, FL Bull Connor’s actions in Birmingham in 1963 presented virulent white southern racism to our nation and to the entire world. Rather...
