On this day in 1955,

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Jan 2, 1964, my first time in the South

We pulled into a local food joint around dark, it was cold outside, I think we were in Louisiana.
By the side parking lot, sitting on in the open passenger seat of a pickup, was a black man eating a sandwich or hamburger, something like that.
It was not till I went to the restrooms around the back and saw the signs that it hit me why he was eating outside in the cold.
For a young girl from the Pac. NW, it was a terrible shock to see racism for the first time.
Not that we did not have racism, just that I was so oblivious to it in my small home town.

And then to move to Ala. for the entire year of 1964....the atmosphere down here was so tense even I could feel it, and I was hardly an aware person at that time.

Now, today, down here, racism still exists, but is much more covert.