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15 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
My dad, 1955

This would explain why we always had about 15 dogs when I was growing up... Image
It's really, really, really a massive relief to find out that your dad wasn't a racist in 1956. Racism was never anything he modeled when I was growing up, but it's good to see it in his letters that he is disgusted with the actions of white southerners while he's at UNC
When my dad wrote, sarcastically, "The south is on the move" and put an arrow pointing to "south" with the caption "not worth capitalizing" he was commenting on the actions of students at the University of Alabama on Feb 7, '56 re: Autherine Lucy, a Black coed Image
The above image is from the student terrorism that happened when Lucy attempted to go to classes.
Heritage, not hate, tho, right?

More on the episode in Civil Rights history, here:
blog.genealogybank.com/on-this-day-af…

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