The Archive
50 Stories
How Growing Up In Rural Georgia Taught Me The Power Of Community
My Mother Helped Integrate Decatur’s Schools. I Was Among the First Students.
My Parents Taught Me That Voting Wasn’t Optional
We Integrated an All-White School. Then We Were Evicted.
I Can’t Remember a Time I Wasn’t Proud to Be Black
I Watched Atlanta Police Kill an Unarmed Black Man in 1966. It Changed My Life.
I Was the First Black Graduate of UGA, and I Was Treated Like a Trespasser
We Desegregated a New Orleans School Before Ruby Bridges. History Forgot Us.
I Witnessed the ‘Whites Only’ Signs Come Down. Then I Saw What Replaced Them.
My Sit-Down With MLK’s Father in 1968 Sparked My Passion to Feed Atlanta’s Homeless
I Was Michael Jackson’s First Music Teacher. I Knew Right Away.
I’ve Trained More Than 3,000 Black Belts. At 80, I’m Still Teaching.
