Charlottesville
Charlottesville
Garwin DeBerry
“I started seeing just how ridiculous it was.”
Steve Helvin
George Foussekis
“The whites never crossed Sixth Street. Blacks never came up into Belmont.”
George Foussekis
“The way your parents raised you and their thoughts carried into one generation or another.”
George Foussekis
“To some people, they were different.”
Jimmy Hollins
“They had signs up, no colored, that sort of thing that was really strange.”
Jim Blackburn
“Suddenly I realized that all these people are sitting in the back of the bus.”
Rod Gentry
“They can’t come to Charlottesville to play because it’s against the law.”
Peyton Humphrey
“I came here when I was four years old because I had asthma, and I was 30 miles from the doctor.”
Mary Johnson
“Intimidation. Things like that happened all the time.”
William Redd
“As he goes out, the second shotgun blast. Pellets hit him all in his back.”
William Redd
“The university had a lot of influence in this town. Good and bad, I’m sure.”
Andy Minton
“There was very little interaction, Black and white in the community at the time.”