ALL OF THIS
*my parents.
And my GREAT Grandma is still alive soooo……..
My GRANDMA
My FATHER went to a LEGALLY MANDATED segregated school until he was 8 and integration was then enforced. He was not legally allowed into a school or part of town with white people until he was almost ten
Many people forget black people couldn’t even vote until 1965. That’s not that long ago.
for the vast majority schools within the south, substantive de-segregation was completed only in like circa 1975. thats like fucking 20 years after Brown v. Board of education.
My father is 52 and he chopped cotton in Louisiana as a child until he was 11
My grandma and great grandma lived and worked on a plantation in Louisiana. My grandma’s childhood pics are of her and her siblings with no shoes on standing in front of sharecropping homes and she is very much still alive and walking, she is 75.
My father was the first Black child in his elementary school in Alabama.
