Classroom
Classroom
“This is not right. But no one prepared us for that.”
Garwin DeBerry
“I was actually frightened to go into a class with all white kids.”
Garwin DeBerry
“They got all the good books, all the new books. We got the hand-me-downs.”
Garwin DeBerry
Julia Shields
“Didn’t I understand how nervous he felt being one of only two Black kids in the class?”
Julia Shields
“It was just a long process to get more representation.”
Julia Shields
Vincent Kinney
“They went home and they told their daddy, and the daddy came to school looking for me.”
Charles Alexander
“I would just turn my head away from the class because I’d have tears coming down.”
Robert King
“I wasn’t the only student that was talking.”
Veronica Jones
Mark and Nancy Tramontin
“Poor kid tried like hell, but she would never ever ever acknowledge him.”