Why’d my black nanny love me?
Sharon Raven Clark, Mammoth Lakes, CA 83 yrs ago, Anna knew all about the continuing atrocities of whites against blacks…yet she loved me…why??? how could...
School integration enriched my white life.
Cynthia Waszak Geary, Baltimore, MD. I grew up in Durham, NC and attended Hillside High School as part of the first court ordered desegregation plan...
Mom, talk about your “black firsts.”
Janice Lowe New York City, NY My mother, Dr. Willa Lowe was one of the first black English teachers in several high schools in New...
Leave identity issues to other people
Phyllis W. Allen, Fort Worth, TX. I am a sixty year old woman who has lived through segregation, integration, Colored, Negro,, Black, African American, segregation,...
Those were rules for uncivilized times
Bobby Flam, Miami, FL Owner of Jumbo’s, the first restaurant in Miami to integrate. READ MORE on Bobby Flam and Jumbo’s: Miami Diner, Pioneer...
I wish it was my prom
Barbara Ann King, Sierra Vista, AZ. Find out more about this Race Card at CNN.
Black teen boys scare white people.
Tim McGovern, Chicago, IL. I live in a racially integrated neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. You go to the playgrounds and there are...
Integration ended my neighborhood’s block party.
Shoshana Hoose Portland, OR I grew up in an all-white neighborhood in Newington, Ct. My mother’s best friend, a Quaker, and her husband sold their...
White flight and racism trump integration.
Robert Robillard Roanoke, VA I teach at a white flight private school that now aims to be diverse. Another element that must be as true...
Separate but equal was the goal.
Glennette Clark Washington DC Integration did a great disservice to black people in that we thought that we achieved a dream that turned out to...
Integration: equity and opportunity for all
Rob Breymaier Oak Park, IL We hear so much about how segregation harms people and communities. We don’t hear enough about how integration improves everyone’s...
I believed Nadia Comaneci represented Brotherhood.
Rachel Bruce Denver, CO In the ’70s in Denver, Colorado I was bussed across town as part of court-ordered school integration. There wasn’t a lot...
Mommy, will blacks stain the pool?
Nancy Bonnet Steelton, PA My question at age 6 (1959) when told that a black neighbor friend could not swim in the city park pool....
