Family
Family
“My mother was from a very racist family.”
Steve Helvin
“We were the first family in Charlottesville to integrate a neighborhood back in ’65.”
Kent Merritt
David Sloan
“And we didn’t care about race or color, only if you could help the football team win.”
George Foussekis
“My father, though a devoted golfer, quit Farmington when Farmington refused to integrate.”
Lloyd Snook
Rod Gentry
Peyton Humphrey
“When I was a child, we always played with white kids and everything.”
Mary Johnson
“I came here when I was four years old because I had asthma, and I was 30 miles from the doctor.”
Mary Johnson
“The neighborhood was like one big happy family.”
Veronica Jones
“We might have no meat on the thing, but it was okay.”
Veronica Jones
“We were very aware that we were white and they weren’t.”
David Sloan
“She would be worried about whether I was going to get beat up on the bus.”
Chip German
“There was very little interaction, Black and white in the community at the time.”
Wade Tremblay
David Wyant
“And the mother yanked me aside real quick and said, “You don’t say mam or sir to those people."”
Mark and Nancy Tramontin
Bernadette Whitsett Hammond
“He could be in the band, but he could not perform with the band.”
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
Nathaniel Garland
“We could tell my grandmother anything.”