I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.
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There were some kind white people out there who provided a loan here or there, or a little bit of land. But Booker T. Washington and his followers knew that they were going to have to draw from their own resources and they knew that the larger white world was looking at them, every day, closely monitoring them.Ed Smith
There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
Ed Smith
To the best of my knowledge, there will be changes in every single store. There will have to be to make this transition.
Ed Smith
The community put such a premium on success. And you had no excuse to blame racism or discrimination as a reason why you couldn't succeed.
Ed Smith
We played a pretty perfect game that night. I don't think it will be easy by any means. But the girls will be excited and ready to go on Saturday.
Ed Smith
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
Ed Smith
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