Albemarle High School
Albemarle High School
“I got a locker to myself. Why would I care?”
Phylissa Mitchell
Phylissa Mitchell
“It would have been more difficult if we didn’t have such boosters in the Black community.”
Phylissa Mitchell
“It was the first time I had experience white hostility in such an organized fashion.”
Phylissa Mitchell
“Adults put us through that, and none of us should have had to sacrifice.”
Vincent Kinney
“The whole time I was at Albemarle, the students rode a separate bus.”
Vincent Kinney
“There was a corporate culture that I could never take part of.”
Vincent Kinney
“I think he was trying to keep the racial balance.”
Frankie Allen
Tom Stargell
“They had signs up, no colored, that sort of thing that was really strange.”
Jim Blackburn
Jim Blackburn
“I don’t recall any really interactions, either positive or negative.”
Jim Blackburn
Jim Blackburn
“I think just from where I am now, it seems like these kids were just dropped into the stew.”
Clare Rannigan
“I think the legacy is that a community was destroyed.”
Clare Rannigan
Darlene Quarles Robinson
“To see that I was just as human, I was just a person, just like they were.”
Darlene Quarles Robinson
Darlene Quarles Robinson
“Let’s do a petition to the school.”
Chip German
Chip German
“Now it’s together, and let’s try to do a little bit on the equal part.”
Chip German
“They became real good friends of mine.”
David Wyant
“I just think the coach didn’t want a Black kid on the team.”
David Wyant
“That’s a tough transition for all.”
David Wyant
Larry Kent
Larry Kent
“When you got a part to be on that team, your blood runs red just like theirs do.”
Nathaniel Garland
“You’ve done something bad. That’s taboo.”
Nathaniel Garland
“Well, whenever you’re feared and hated any time you walk in somewhere, it starts to wear on you.”
