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35 Years Later: Black & White Student Reunions

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

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Warriors Don't Cry

Reverend Jim Lawson from Los Angeles was a divinity student at Vanderbilt. How you students were like trained to be nonviolent? Were they trained to resist? Did someone say to you no matter what it said to you? You take it, every day. Some of the king came down. Quakers came down from Canada. We were all taught. You cannot respond. To this day I wear glasses because of back of my right heel hurts. Because of people walking on the back of my heels. Oprah Winfrey: "We all carry these scars in one form or another"

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