Black clients funded our white flight.
Jane Meacham, Washington, DC. My dad is a lawyer in Kansas City, MO, who always had mostly black, working-class clients. When the city school district...
You should go to trade school.
Charles Dirden Little Rock, AR During the first year that schools were integrated this is what my white counselor told me. It hurt my feelings...
Prejudice is taught; let’s unteach it.
Karen W. Gronau, Perry Hall, MD. I taught elementary school for four decades. I saw a good change over the years. My classes became more...
Will you still talk to me?
Susan Duncan, Bristol, NH. When I was in the fourth grade, my family moved from Concord, North Carolina, to Leaksville (now Eden), North Carolina. Our...
Then: legally integrated, socially segregated. Now?
Joan Goldbach Winter Park, FL When I was in high school, the classrooms were integrated. The cafeteria, though, was segregated – by choice, not school...
Integrate. Know me; don’t fear me.
Laurie Johns Tuscaloosa, AL I am white. I attended integrated public schools in Montgomery, Alabama from 1st through 12th grade graduating from Sidney Lanier High...
My JHS bore banner Quality Integrated Education
Bruce Rosen New York City, NY Manhattan The 3 words together would be inconceivable today & not for the right reasons
Black face second grade doo dah.
Edd Fish Centralia, IL In 1952 my second grade class in Elkville prepared for the fall festival by learning to sing “De Camptown Races Five...
