The Archive
50 Stories
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 Watched Atlanta Police Kill an Unarmed Black Man in 1966. It Changed My Life.
My Cousin Emmett Till Was Bigger Than Life. I Was With Him the Night He Was Killed.
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.
