Segregation
Segregation
“They got all the good books, all the new books. We got the hand-me-downs.”
Garwin DeBerry
“I dimly knew that there was something called segregation, but I didn’t know what it meant.”
Julia Shields
“Separate and equal wasn’t working.”
Vincent Kinney
“The whole time I was at Albemarle, the students rode a separate bus.”
Vincent Kinney
Vincent Kinney
Vincent Kinney
“It truly was insensitive, but we didn’t realize it then.”
Steve Helvin
“I started seeing just how ridiculous it was.”
Steve Helvin
“We didn’t win a lot, but we had no problem.”
Steve Helvin
“We were just kind of oblivious.”
Steve Helvin
“Student athletes socializing and hanging out together. I don’t recall that when I was at Lane.”
David Sloan
“I think it was separate but equal, to borrow an old term.”
David Sloan
“I don’t mean no harm or disrespect, but the band at Lane just sucked.”
James Bryant
“The whites never crossed Sixth Street. Blacks never came up into Belmont.”
George Foussekis
“He said, “You can’t sit here. The whites only section is down on the 10.””
Dickie Tayloe
Frankie Allen
“My father, though a devoted golfer, quit Farmington when Farmington refused to integrate.”
Lloyd Snook
Steve Runkle
“There wasn’t any sense of segregation.”
Jim Blackburn
“They had signs up, no colored, that sort of thing that was really strange.”
Jim Blackburn
“Suddenly I realized that all these people are sitting in the back of the bus.”
Rod Gentry
“Rock Hill parents did not want any kind of mixing with any other group.”
Rod Gentry
“I mean you just didn’t associate with them.”
Peyton Humphrey
“They can’t come to Charlottesville to play because it’s against the law.”
Peyton Humphrey
Peyton Humphrey
William Redd
“You know how you sense somebody behind you? I look up. There’s a police officer.”
William Redd
Darlene Quarles Robinson
“Burley had pretty good football teams, but we never played against each other.”
Tommy Theodose
“I was disappointed, because I wanted them to play for me, and the administration turned them down.”
Tommy Theodose
Tommy Theodose
“A lot of restaurants wouldn’t take us because we had a Black athlete.”
Tommy Theodose
“Integration, you know, far as they were concerned didn’t even exist.”
Tommy Theodose
“The Blacks had the churches that they attended and the Whites had churches they attended.”
Donald Byers
“I remember recognizing for the first time that Black patrons of the theater entered from the side.”
Chip German
“I went and sat with the Black students in the back of the bus.”
Chip German
“Shut the door, start the engine, and let’s get out of here.”
Brock Strickler
“There was very little interaction, Black and white in the community at the time.”
Wade Tremblay
“This was their place, their team. You weren’t necessarily welcome there.”
Wade Tremblay
“They had a lot of resistance in Charlottesville.”
David Wyant
“And the black kids sat with other black kids.”
Larry Kent
“They said they couldn’t guarantee my safety.”
Roland and Ronald Woodfolk
“Places that we knew that we couldn’t go, we didn’t go.”
Roland and Ronald Woodfolk
“You guys just, were just tolerated.”