Activism
Activism
Phylissa Mitchell
“You keep on reporting what’s wrong.”
Julia Shields
“I went and marched with them the next day.”
Vincent Kinney
“It was bigger than a football field.”
Kent Merritt
“They were in charge of everything at Burley before, and now they have nothing.”
Kent Merritt
Kent Merritt
James Bryant
“I was getting my books out of my locker, and he called me the N-word.”
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
“The incident caused the schools to shut down because of the racial tensions.”
James Bryant
“And it was organized, we weren’t screaming and hollering and cursing and using profanity.”
James Bryant
Dickie Tayloe
“I was considered a threat to the Virginia school system.”
Charles Alexander
“You do what you have to do and we’ll do what we have to do.”
Charles Alexander
“My father, though a devoted golfer, quit Farmington when Farmington refused to integrate.”
Lloyd Snook
Lloyd Snook
“Not a lot of people know about the Hospital Boys Club.”
Robert King
Andy Minton
“This is something that we have to do as a Black race.”
Veronica Jones
“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, clearly.”
Byrd Leavell
“We tried to help out, but we weren’t feeling the brunt of it all.”
Byrd Leavell
Darlene Quarles Robinson
Tommy Theodose
“A lot of restaurants wouldn’t take us because we had a Black athlete.”
Tommy Theodose
“Didn’t know it then, but clearly it was racism that was a part of that.”
David Sloan
“I feel like we are regressing.”
Donald Byers
“She would be worried about whether I was going to get beat up on the bus.”
Chip German
“Let’s do a petition to the school.”
Chip German
“I went and sat with the Black students in the back of the bus.”
Chip German
Chip German
Mark and Nancy Tramontin
Bernadette Whitsett Hammond
“She was just a wonderful, wonderful individual to have as an instructor and as a role model.”
Bernadette Whitsett Hammond
“I don’t feel that this was right. I want to support.”