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"I found myself in the principal's office a lot."
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"I found myself in the principal's office a lot."
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"He said, 'Someone told me you might feed my family.'"
"He said, 'Someone told me you might feed my family.'"
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"He was immaculate from head to toe."
"He was immaculate from head to toe."
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“My parents were sharecroppers, working the land, working the tobacco, pulling the little bloom that comes off so there’d be more leaves…”
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“My parents were sharecroppers, working the land, working the tobacco, pulling the little bloom that comes off so there’d be more leaves…”
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"That kindness in such young people changed me forever."
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"That kindness in such young people changed me forever."
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Brewer Bell Museum
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Brewer Bell Museum
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“I could stand in my backyard and listen to Ku Klux Klan meetings.”
2:40
“I could stand in my backyard and listen to Ku Klux Klan meetings.”
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"We sold what household things we had..."
"We sold what household things we had..."
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"When all the parents leave, it goes crazy..."
"When all the parents leave, it goes crazy..."
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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”
2:32
“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”
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“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”
3:11
“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”
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"It was like Picasso, a great artist doing his work. When he was in that car, he was doing his work."
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"It was like Picasso, a great artist doing his work. When he was in that car, he was doing his work."
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