Cool.
I remember the first time I met black kids face to face. I'm thinking it was 1st or 2nd grade, so, 1971-'72. Busing had come to Newton Falls. I remember the so-called "adults" having a fit. But after all the fuss, it turned out to be no big deal. No fights, no rioting.....nothing. But, then there was only like three of them in a school of more than 500. They were more of a curiosity than anything else.
I'm thinking folks were frightened because we had all seen the ugly mess of riots and crime they had going on in big cities like Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit and LA.
I still talk to one of the black kids that was three years behind me, Roz. She, her brother Russell and one in my class, ('82) Leroy Wilson were the only non-whites attending Newton Falls High when I graduated.
The '60s/'70s were a strange period, a sort of transitional phase America was going through.
Dave
Dave
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