Before 1954, Black Children Were Banned from White Schools — So Where Did They Go to School?
What Was Life Like for Black Children Barred from White Schools — Where Did They Study?
Before 1954, Black Children Were Banned from White Schools — So Where Did They Go to School?
What Was Life Like for Black Children Barred from White Schools — Where Did They Study?
It was not integration, it was consolidation. My Daddy left public teaching. My mother stayed.
Want to hear the worst?
Our house firebombed. My mother's desk covered in human waste. Her car vandalized in the teachers' parking. My hair sawed off by her students. My nervous breakdown at 11yo. My Daddy's descent into alcoholism.
It was hell.