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35 Years Later: Black & White Student Reunions

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

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What Happened to the Blacks in Little Rock?

Anne Berlson, Jean Porter and David Sontag are three of the white students who admit in one form or another to being part of that ugliness. Anne says she is now ashamed of her schoolyard chant: "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate" She regrets being a silent witness to the crimes by fellow white students at Little Rock's Central High School on March 4, 1957. And David Sontags apologizes for an altercation in the cafeteria where he had been dared to retaliate against many Jean for having poor jelly on someone's head earlier. He says it was done out of ignorance. Of not understanding her plight.

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