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171. 'We Are Not Moving!'
Sylvia A. Brookter I am 60 years old, and I still don't understand how the color of the skin can have such a negative impact.I was 15 years old, and ...
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172. 'My Foundation Was Taken Away'
Warren L. Brown In the summer of 1959, I was all prepared to ride the big yellow bus to school. It never came. I can remember going home crying an ...
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173. 'Twenty-Four Hours to Ponder and Sweat'
Raymond Cormier Back in 1961, I was the manager of a new, 44-unit apartment house in Palo Alto, California. The perks (free rent and telephone) h ...
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174. 'Discrimination Still Exists to This Day'
Cindi Adams In February 2000, I purchased a ranch 30 miles north of Perry, Florida. A banker friend of mine set up the sale and told me of a f ...
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175. 'I Can Only Attribute This to the Color of Her Skin'
Charlotte Mandel I am a 75-year-old Jewish woman who has been residing in Brooklyn all of my life. My co-op is predominately Jewish now, consisting ...
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176. 'Each Little Booth Was Occupied by a Young Black Person'
Dwain Horn I was there the day the sit-in movement at lunch counters started in Atlanta. In the early summer of 1960, Rev. King was gaining ...
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177. 'We Didn't Play With the Other Kids Anymore'
Rodney Douglas It was 1960, and there was Grandma, Simon, and me. We traveled every summer to New Orleans. My grandfather worked for the railro ...
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178. 'I Felt No Hate or Malice'
Clarissa Parks Around the tender age of nine or ten, my two younger brothers and I (Clarence, Jr., and Ronald) visited our grandparents, aunts, a ...
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179. 'We...Worried All Night as to Whether a Court Martial Awaited Us'
Leslie Cox On a Navy travel order, about 25 sailors were set to board a chartered train to leave Pensacola on an overnight trip to Jacksonvil ...
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180. 'I've Whispered My Apology to Myself Many Times'
Ted Wagner It was a cool Friday night in the fall of 1962. As a working undergraduate student at Louisiana State University with a wife and ...
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