That immediately it became all of these counter activities, efforts not only to not move forward but to push us backwards. I thought that resistance in itself was so disturbing because it confused the picture, and really the action was more like this was about bussing and not about school, that it was not about openness, but it was about trying to get new privilege to people who didnt deserve it. That i thought was very detrimental, not just to the children and parents who were involved but i think to the society. Now, you enjoyed an integrated education. Yes. So in that sense you enjoyed what brown might have meant. Thats right, and thats what i thought. I said, now, because and i have until i was an adult i had never had a negro teacher, and so my teachers were interested in me, the parents, boys and girls all shared things together, and i thought, well, this is what school ought to be like, and i thought at last we had it. Well, the decision didnt have an effect on your education, b
That immediately it became all of these counter activities, efforts not only to not move forward but to push us backwards. I thought that resistance in itself was so disturbing because it confused the picture, and really the action was more like this was about bussing and not about school, that it was not about openness, but it was about trying to get new privilege to people who didnt deserve it. That i thought was very detrimental, not just to the children and parents who were involved but i think to the society. Now, you enjoyed an integrated education. Yes. So in that sense you enjoyed what brown might have meant. Thats right, and thats what i thought. I said, now, because and i have until i was an adult i had never had a negro teacher, and so my teachers were interested in me, the parents, boys and girls all shared things together, and i thought, well, this is what school ought to be like, and i thought at last we had it. Well, the decision didnt have an effect on your education, b
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.