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1. 'The Miscegenation Law in California Was Overturned'
Veronica Marshall-Varela In 1947, there were many states that did not allow marriages between whites and nonwhites. These states had miscegenation laws. Ca ...
| | 2. 'I Understand Their Fear'
Pam Hunter I grew up in a rural Ohio community. There was little crime to speak of, certainly no racial strife, and our town could easily be ...
| | 3. 'I Had a Black Roommate From ... Newark'
Weda Mosellie In September 1971, I left home for the first time when I went away to a college that was 40 percent African American. I had come f ...
| | 4. 'One Negro Marine Was With Us'
Edwin Akers In 1954, a group of high school track team members (one carload) was traveling to Bloomington, Indiana, for a second round of comp ...
| | 5. 'A Black Mother and Her Daughter Sat Next to Us'
Madeline Hendrickson The year was 1952. It was a dream come true for a very enthusiastic, naive 16-year-old: a real job. I was hired at the F.W. Woolw ...
| | 6. 'We Will Have to...Pretend We Are All Equal'
Barbara Reisman As a musician traveling throughout the Southern states in the '50s and '60s, I witnessed many civil rights abuses. I was a member ...
| | 7. 'I Was Barely 14'
Lurma Rackley Not long after the all-white education officials in South Carolina declined to renew my father's contract at the black state colle ...
| | 8. 'The Means to Achieve Our Education Were...Taken Away'
Celeste Wiley I remember the last day of school in 1959. I had achieved excellent grades, and my report card read, recommended to the third gra ...
| | 9. 'An Increasing Stream...Approached the Washington Monument'
Martha Wason August 28, 2003, marked the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for jobs and dignity. I was fortunate to have been a ...
| | 10. 'Our Family...Wasn't Like That, So We Drove On'
Carol Guler Way back in 1961 or 1962, when I was 9 or 10 years old, my family (my mother, father, and two younger brothers) took a vacation ou ...
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