For Those Of Us... Of Non-Tender Years... Name The School And The Year... You Were Integrated ???

[Manifestor_of_Light]

39. Yes, I saw that.

I sent the link to a couple of my homies, including another Sam Rayburn graduate.

When I was a kid, the town had a few Hispanics but was pretty much all white, mostly blue collar refinery workers. The only Jews in town were doctors and their children.

The only black people I had contact with were the ladies who worked for my mother as maids.
I remember driving to Fidelity Manor, going through the Washburn Tunnel, to drop them off. Fidelity Manor is part of Galena Park. I was fascinated going in one lady's house, because it was an immaculately clean shotgun house. The bedroom had a popcorn bedspread and a Princess phone with a lighted dial. Because of the Princess phone, I thought these people were really hip.

I think that because we were Democrats and I had virtually no contact with black people, except at Democratic gatherings, my mom didn't want me to think badly of African-Americans, so she would tell me how great Ralph Bunche was.