I Grew Up in a Segregated South and I Was a Kid at 11 Years Old

In 1954, the Supreme Court said segregation truly is unconstitutional. It took a while for that to become a reality in the lives of most African Americans and white Americans. "I went on to apply to go to school at Clemson knowing that that was not the norm" He says he had some people who were negative, did not want him to be there,. felt I should be ostracized so that I'd become so discouraged she wouldn't stay.