his name is john wesley rice sr.. he is a sharecropper son and he worked others land and in utah. when john wesley rice sr. was about 19 years old, he decided that he would like to get book learning and college under his belt. so he asked people how a colored man could get educated and they told him about tuscaloosa, so he saved up and he went off to college in his first year went great. and then after his first year, they said, how are you going to pay for your second year. he said i'm out of cotton. and they said, how are you going to pay for a? is your out of a luck. and he said will have a these other boys pay for it. and they said that he is part of presbyterian studies and there is a scholarship. my grandfather said that is what i want to do. so my family has been presbyterians and in college ever since. [laughter] so they were very industrious as far as their path to education. and my father was entirely instrumental at the beginning. connie mentioned the horrors of the south. and it was the most segregated big city in america. it was 1952, my parents were actually not marri