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For anyone with parents/grandparents alive during segregation
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:58 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:58 am
Just wondering if anyone remembered any interesting stories about that era. I kinda don't want this thread to get whacked so let's not get too crazy.
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Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:00 am to 337Tiger19
The genius' in Tangipahoa parish decided to have separate boys and girls schools. They didn't want their girls going to school with boys of color,
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:03 am to 337Tiger19
Why does it have to be people with grandparent's alive then only?
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:08 am to 337Tiger19
Dad says they ran a chain linked fence through the school. They used to play with the black kids through the fences 
trading toys and stuff.
trading toys and stuff. Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:08 am to 337Tiger19
I remember a couple of things as a kid.
I found pictures of me as a child sitting on a washing machine in Mississippi that had a sign on the wall that said "whites only." I thought it referred to clothes at first but my mom filled me in on the truth.
Remember when my school desegregated, we ended up with some horrible teachers. Having black kids in class didn't bother the students.
After my mom's stepdad passed away we found some old letters he had written, copied and kept. One was a letter to some group for hiring a black guy over a white guy. He was pissed. Strange thing about it, he was really close to the black people who lived in the community and they loved him.
I found pictures of me as a child sitting on a washing machine in Mississippi that had a sign on the wall that said "whites only." I thought it referred to clothes at first but my mom filled me in on the truth.
Remember when my school desegregated, we ended up with some horrible teachers. Having black kids in class didn't bother the students.
After my mom's stepdad passed away we found some old letters he had written, copied and kept. One was a letter to some group for hiring a black guy over a white guy. He was pissed. Strange thing about it, he was really close to the black people who lived in the community and they loved him.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:09 am to 337Tiger19
My family owned a plantation cotton farm in Arkansas. There were many people of color that lived and worked on the farm. From all accounts, everyone got along and had a good life together. There was mutual respect abroad.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:12 am to 337Tiger19
My grandfather was a trolley driver in Shreveport when all that crap started. He said once a black man tried to sit in the front and my grand dad stopped the bus or trolley (I can't remember which one) and got up and punched the colored fella in the mouth and made him get in the back of the bus.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:12 am to 337Tiger19
Before she died my great aunt told us something to the effect of "white people and black people respected each other as people back then". She also mentioned that the older blacks she new as a young adult were extremely patriotic and wanted to become respected as Americans.
ETA: She did use the " N" word quite frequently regardsless of race and always when she wanted someone to do something. Is she would look at me and say, "Come on now " N" go put 2 cubes of ice in a glass and pour some bourbon on top of it for me....and get yourself a coke'.
ETA: She did use the " N" word quite frequently regardsless of race and always when she wanted someone to do something. Is she would look at me and say, "Come on now " N" go put 2 cubes of ice in a glass and pour some bourbon on top of it for me....and get yourself a coke'.
This post was edited on 12/28/14 at 11:24 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:14 am to Placebeaux
I remember drinking fish bowl beers at Chris' Bar on Main Street Baton Rouge and black people could only come to the package liquor window.
I remember segregated bathrooms and water fountains. I grew up with black people both kids and adults in the city and the farm. Never did we have any racial trouble either way.
I remember segregated bathrooms and water fountains. I grew up with black people both kids and adults in the city and the farm. Never did we have any racial trouble either way.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:16 am to 337Tiger19
I took my parents to eat at Blacks in Abbeville when I first moved to Lafayette. We walked in and my dad leaned over and whispered "I thought we came in the wrong door"
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:16 am to REB BEER
Grandparents owned a general store and gas station. My grandfather was picketed bc he didn't segregate anything in/at the store. He was shot in the during a picket for pumping gas in a black guy's truck. My dad worked at the store as a boy and young man. He said they would get calls all through the night threatening to burn it down. They slept in the store at different points to protect it. Said it was a crazy time.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:16 am to Traffic Circle
quote:
Why does it have to be people with grandparent's alive then only?
Well if you were alive then by all means say something.
This post was edited on 12/28/14 at 11:17 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:21 am to 337Tiger19
My grandparents on my dads side had a segregated bar and restaurant (Blacks only)in NOLA for years. It was where the River gate was built, but his restaurant was closer to Poydras St. than Canal ST. Most of his customers worked on the river front. Ran it just like his brother ran his white only restaurant and bar. Lines of credit, cashed checks, ran the drunks and assholes out on occasion.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:31 am to TIGER2
There was a bar that was separated where I grew up, when I was still really young. They eventually tore the wall down. As kids we didn't really know what was up. The bars owner had a son my age and we would play pool on the black only side all the time. Never really thought of it
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:36 am to cuyahoga tiger
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cuyahoga tiger
For anyone with parents/grandparents alive during segregation
The genius' in Tangipahoa parish decided to have separate boys and girls schools. They didn't want their girls going to school with boys of color,
Jefferson did it doo
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:37 am to redstick13
My mom was really young when integration started. Like 1st or 2nd grade. My grandmother told how my mother came home once and asked why the black kids didn't want to go to school with the white kids all along. Kids aren't born naturally able to see things through race covered glasses and I guess it was confusing for her.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:40 am to REB BEER
My dad is a successful business owner (we are white) and he would fire people publicity for using racial terms on the job. There was one spectacular story about a white foreman saying something about "lazy n-word" and my dad fired him on the spot. Another guy chimed in about my dad being a "n-lover" and he fired that white guy and his wife that day too knowing the wife was working to send their kids to private school.
There is family lore that my great (great?) grandfather helped with the Underground Railroad and would help free slaves from bordering plantations and when the civil was was over get free black men and their families to the north for safety. They believed it was their Christian duty to do this.
There is family lore that my great (great?) grandfather helped with the Underground Railroad and would help free slaves from bordering plantations and when the civil was was over get free black men and their families to the north for safety. They believed it was their Christian duty to do this.
This post was edited on 12/28/14 at 11:46 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:41 am to 337Tiger19
"2, 4,6,8...we don't want to integrate!" A chant my dad said popular around the time. He also remembers kids throwing rocks at buses with black riders.
In Nola
In Nola
This post was edited on 12/28/14 at 11:42 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:42 am to cuyahoga tiger
quote:
The genius' in Tangipahoa parish decided to have separate boys and girls schools. They didn't want their girls going to school with boys of color,
never happened.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:48 am to 337Tiger19
I remember being in a restaurant that had a working service window for blacks, also 2 bars with the same. Remember blacks riding in the back of buses and "whites only" signs at laundry mats.
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