Teachers
Teachers
“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
“Junior high was an angry year.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
Julia Shields
“You keep on reporting what’s wrong.”
Julia Shields
Julia Shields
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
“Teachers expected you to excel, and teachers were part of the community.”
James Bryant
James Bryant
James Bryant
“We went with a list of grievances.”
James Bryant
“There was just so much every day, it was just drama every day.”
James Bryant
“She would send little notes home in my backpack to my mother to share the type of day that I had.”
Charles Alexander
“They went home and they told their daddy, and the daddy came to school looking for me.”
Charles Alexander
“My father, though a devoted golfer, quit Farmington when Farmington refused to integrate.”
Lloyd Snook
Lloyd Snook
“I was leaving all of my Black friends and I was leaving the teachers.”
Robert King
“The only racist problem I had was that one year we was playing Albemarle High School.”
Veronica Jones
“I wasn’t the only student that was talking.”
Veronica Jones
“Don’t you ever look at me that way.”
Veronica Jones
“You didn’t realize there was a lot of turmoil.”
Donald Byers
“There was no bus to take you home after activities.”
Donald Byers
“We were going to do something that everybody would always remember Jackson P. Burley High School.”
Donald Byers
“Burley was more than just a sports school.”
Donald Byers
“They’d rather shut down than change.”
Mark and Nancy Tramontin
Mark and Nancy Tramontin
“Poor kid tried like hell, but she would never ever ever acknowledge him.”
Mark and Nancy Tramontin
Bernadette Whitsett Hammond
“There just were not many Black teachers there during my time.”
Bernadette Whitsett Hammond
“I don’t feel that this was right. I want to support.”
Bernadette Whitsett Hammond
“Well, whenever you’re feared and hated any time you walk in somewhere, it starts to wear on you.”
Nathaniel Garland
“We were all bunched together.”
Roland and Ronald Woodfolk
“When we went to Lane, the nurturing part was not there.”
Roland and Ronald Woodfolk
“She was still teaching after we left, and she did the black students the same way, gave ‘em Es”
Roland and Ronald Woodfolk
“I’m always taught you should get the grade that was beholden to your effort.”