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Canary
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Username: Canary
Post Number: 4
Registered: 07-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 09:46 pm: | 
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I do. And I'm in my 50's.
Growing up down south we couldn't go to White only places, drink from 'their' water fountains, go into certain areas without concern for being beat up or dead...lynchings and folk found killed, go to town without getting 'those looks'.
It was something when we could eat at a Woolworth's dugstore diner when that happened.
Not that we were wanting for that food which we couldn't really afford anyway..but just the fact that the right to do it was 'fought' for..and won.
Went to hear Dr.King talk on the back of an old beatup green pickup truck. My Papa talked with him for a while.
Got any stories? Any that relatives told?
I don't ever want to forget where we as people of color came from and all the struggles that continue to this day.
Honoring the elders and ancestors!
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10642
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 05:08 pm: |
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In the north, segregation was more a case of discrimination. In my experience, I was able to go anywhere I chose but the reaction of people who were prejudiced often inspired cynicism because it showed what a farce integration could be.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5724
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 12:18 pm: |
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I got in on the tail end of it--I was in on the integration of some public schools around here--that was a lot of fun. Fights. "•••••• Go Home" signs.
There were some amusement parks around here that were segregated. I wasn't in on the efforts to integrate them, mostly saw it on tv, but they were all closed within a short time.
I moved into a couple of neighborhoods that were mostly white when me and my family arrived and were all black within about five years.
They desegregated the lunch counters in the early fifties around here. I remember by mother being so tickled about going to the lunch counter she would take me downtown on the bus to go.
I only found out later why--that they were newly desegregated.
Desegregation was done with a lot less fanfare here--there were some fights and violence here and there but nothing heavy--of course I got to see everything that was going on in Mississippi and all on tv.
The kids would sooner forget all this--till their moment comes... |
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