Community
Community
Corlis Turner Anderson
“We felt like a unit. I really felt like it was a wonderful experience for me.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
“You had to fight to present yourself as: I am worthy.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
“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
“It would have been more difficult if we didn’t have such boosters in the Black community.”
Phylissa Mitchell
“I do think athletics helped.”
Julia Shields
“I don’t know what could have been done better, but it should’ve been done better.”
Kent Merritt
“There was just kind of a sadness.”
Kent Merritt
“Teachers expected you to excel, and teachers were part of the community.”
James Bryant
James Bryant
“The church was the cornerstone of our community, and we had the community.”
James Bryant
George Foussekis
“And we didn’t care about race or color, only if you could help the football team win.”
George Foussekis
“The way your parents raised you and their thoughts carried into one generation or another.”
George Foussekis
Jimmy Hollins
“There was nothing going on here. There was no reason to come to Scottsville after dark.”
Tom Stargell
“I think the legacy is that a community was destroyed.”
Clare Rannigan
“It was really hard to get any sense of community.”
Clare Rannigan
“I was leaving all of my Black friends and I was leaving the teachers.”
Robert King
“Other communities had gangs, we had football games.”
Robert King
“The neighborhood was like one big happy family.”
Veronica Jones
“We tried to help out, but we weren’t feeling the brunt of it all.”
Byrd Leavell
“Cismont Braves. I remember attending one of those games.”
Darlene Quarles Robinson
“We didn’t have a lot of all racial bias or conflict in the North Garden area.”
Donald Byers
“Burley was more than just a sports school.”
Donald Byers
“The Blacks had the churches that they attended and the Whites had churches they attended.”
Donald Byers
“The change from Greenbrier to Jefferson widened the range of people that I had encountered.”
Chip German
“It was the only integrated team in the state.”
Brock Strickler
Wade Tremblay
Bernadette Whitsett Hammond
“That was the one thing I was about as a kid. If you hurt me, I was going to get you.”
Nathaniel Garland
“People that was influencing my life, was the neighbors.”
Roland and Ronald Woodfolk
“When we went to Lane, the nurturing part was not there.”
Roland and Ronald Woodfolk
“I think sports did help overcome racial tensions.”
Roland and Ronald Woodfolk
“Places that we knew that we couldn’t go, we didn’t go.”