Hindsight
Hindsight
Garwin DeBerry
“We just recognize that we’re a part of that history.”
Kent Merritt
“Student athletes socializing and hanging out together. I don’t recall that when I was at Lane.”
David Sloan
“As I’ve gotten older, I realized what they were going through.”
George Foussekis
“The way your parents raised you and their thoughts carried into one generation or another.”
George Foussekis
Dickie Tayloe
“If this thing is going to work, then we had to be not as good as, but we had to be better.”
Frankie Allen
“High school was a tougher place back in those times.”
Tom Stargell
Tom Stargell
Jim Blackburn
“Sports can be really on the vanguard of positive racial relations.”
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
“We all wanted to be their best friends.”
Byrd Leavell
“I think it worked itself out over a few years.”
Byrd Leavell
“Didn’t know it then, but clearly it was racism that was a part of that.”
David Sloan
“You didn’t realize there was a lot of turmoil.”
Donald Byers
“We just all got along well I thought, but of course, I could have just been blind to it all.”
Keith Franklin
“It was a good experience for me personally.”
Brock Strickler
“I am proud of what we had done.”
Brock Strickler
Wade Tremblay
David Wyant
“And the black kids sat with other black kids.”
Larry Kent
“We got out of the town in the dark before the subpoena could be served.”
Mark and Nancy Tramontin
“Don’t let anything get you down.”
Mark and Nancy Tramontin
“How come we gotta go to Lane?”