Cheerleading
Cheerleading
“We had a really good squad that year.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
“As long as you were promoting these teams, everybody was cheering for you.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
“I was suspended from the squad.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
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
“She was on the field cheerleading, and they were just calling her the N-word.”
James Bryant
Lloyd Snook
“I just never felt like I belonged. I didn’t feel like there was any group that welcomed me.”
Clare Rannigan
“To see that I was just as human, I was just a person, just like they were.”
Darlene Quarles Robinson
Darlene Quarles Robinson
“And so it was always kind of a neat feeling that you got an apple.”
Keith Franklin
“Let’s do a petition to the school.”